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...People like Rangel and Belafonte might do well to listen more closely to the next generation of black leaders-people like Obama and Congressmen Harold Ford of Tennessee, Artur Davis of Alabama and Sanford Bishop of Georgia-who emphasize both the need for more money to fight poverty and the need to change the behavior patterns of the poor. "Our priority has to be with whatever works, as opposed to the conventional wisdom within our group or our party," Obama said last week, adding that liberal and conservative solutions to poverty are not mutually exclusive. "It's not either/or...
...however, it is important to remember that Katrina left no one unaffected. Rich or poor, every resident of New Orleans, not to mention Mississippi, Florida, Georgia and Alabama, was subjected to an indescribable tragedy. The only good that can come of this tragedy will be a lasting recognition by every American that, in the face of a natural disaster, we must always seek to aid those less fortunate than ourselves...
...known as 1539 and 1543. Ivan had nine codes, starting with 1548, one for each state affected by the emergency. Hurricane Katrina is such a vast and expensive undertaking that it has been assigned 45 separate codes: 1602 for Florida, 1603 for Louisiana, 1604 for Mississippi and 1605 for Alabama, plus one for every state taking in evacuees. For months and perhaps years to come, those codes will be used by the Federal Government to pay for, and keep track of, the billions of dollars required to rebuild. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will end up reimbursing the Coast...
...conservatives could see at least some of their handiwork in the Administration's initial proposals for job-training accounts and private- and parochial-school vouchers--as well as in the President's earlier controversial decision to suspend rules requiring federal contractors to pay "prevailing wages" in the region. Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions has even tried to use the tragedy to fuel support for his faltering legislation to repeal the estate tax, which brought in $24.8 billion to the Treasury last year. After his prodding, activists were busy trying to identify a victim whose estate would get hit by the current...
...greatly increased in recent days. One of three Carnival Cruise Lines ships that was chartered to house thousands of relief workers and possibly evacuees for at least six months, at a cost of around $220 million, was still docked in Mobile, Ala., most of last week and empty, as Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana jockeyed for the vessel. More ominously, in the wake of the horrifying discovery of 34 bodies at a Louisiana nursing home and an additional 45 at New Orleans' Memorial Medical Center, a very public dispute about the slow pace of gathering bodies in New Orleans erupted between...