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 Orleans labor [...]
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, the top [...]
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 [...]
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. The small, [...]
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 historic African-American [...]
