Word: katrina
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...gave the speech at Friday’s dinner, delivered the message that challenges are everywhere and that odds can be defeated. “You can overcome even when you think you can’t...[but] it’s also about being willing to accept [your] Katrina,” he said. He spoke about what he had done for the city, the changes he had made to procedures in dealing with hurricanes, the new charter schools, and the new playgrounds. New Orleans faced a dip since Katrina, according to Nagin, “but [New Orleans...
...this academic year as they did in all of the last one. By Thanksgiving, 330 districts - including Las Vegas; Albuquerque, N.M.; and San Bernardino, Calif. - had equaled or surpassed the previous year's total. At these rates, 2008-09 could top the 2005-06 academic year, when Hurricane Katrina wrecked the Gulf Coast and 1 in 50 American children experienced homelessness, according to another report released this month. (See pictures of the bridge collapse in Minneapolis...
...coastline of the Bay Area, where large parts of both San Francisco and Oakland could be threatened with extreme flooding by the end of the century. Even parts of the Pacific coastline that may be shielded from flooding could be at risk for increased erosion. Worse, as with Hurricane Katrina, it will be the poor and those without insurance who will likely bear the brunt of the flooding damage. "There's this notion that those living on the coast are all rich with insurance," says Cooley. "But in fact these populations are often poor, and they will be particularly vulnerable...
...only marine currently in the fellows program, Lieutenant Colonel Michael D. Robinson, has served all over the world, from the Balkans to Mosul, Iraq to New Orleans, Louisiana as part of the post-Katrina relief efforts there. He notes that the educational value of having officers at HKS is a two-way street. “I think it’s a great program. A lot of professors have studied things their whole life but we help educate them also to some degree,” he says. “As Security Fellows we’re able...
Families with children comprise roughly one-third of the nation's homeless population. Poverty continues to be a core reason for the crisis, though the aftermath of Hurrican Katrina combined to swell the numbers in Louisiana, Texas and Georgia. Since the 1980s, single mothers have accounted for an increasing share of the homeless population, partly because of increased divorced rates, gender and wage disparities, and the shrinking supply of affordable housing. Officials believe that the current home foreclosure crisis will be adding a new demographic to these statistics: middle-class blacks and Latinos. "It's families that were living pretty...