Hurricane Katrina
Black women hampered by gender and race post-Katrina
Louisiana Weekly – Black women are struggling to find employment in New Orleans and are being hindered by gender and race five years after Hurricane Katrina, according to two fact sheets presented last week by the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women. In 2005, women made up slightly more than half of the New [...]
5 years after Hurricane Katrina, billions in recovery funds unspent
Miami Herald – More than a quarter of the $20 billion in direct federal relief that was earmarked for Louisiana and Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina remains unspent five years after the storm, a fact noticed by at least one congressional leader who’s eager to spend it elsewhere. In June, U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, [...]
Obama pledges Gulf support on Katrina anniversary
Five years after Hurricane Katrina’s wrath, President Barack Obama sought to reassure disaster-weary Gulf Coast residents Sunday that he would not abandon their cause. “My administration is going to stand with you, and fight alongside you, until the job is done,” Obama said to cheers at Xavier University, a historically black, Catholic university that was [...]
Dollars and visits to mark Katrina anniversary
Washington Post – The Obama administration is doling out millions in new reconstruction grants and deploying top officials as the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina nears. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate on Tuesday announced about $28.4 million in federal funds for reconstruction projects in Louisiana and Mississippi. [...]
Rebuilding a Katrina-ravaged community
Atlanta Journal-Constitution – Much of the media coverage of Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath has largely centered on the lower Ninth Ward area of New Orleans, widely considered to be the epicenter of the disaster. But as we approach the fifth anniversary of the most destructive and costliest natural disaster in our nation’s history, homeowners in the [...]
