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...capacity to heal and help" spoke in bold terms about "one of the largest reconstruction efforts the world has ever seen," proposing a tax-advantaged Gulf Opportunity Zone to create jobs, worker-recovery accounts to help evacuees pay for job training and child care, and even an Urban Homesteading Act to let some low-income victims of Katrina build homes on cheap federal land. Think of it as George W. Bush's New Deal...
...some may never return at all. Eric Belsky, a lecturer in urban planning at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, imagines a chasm between the rich and the poor in a post-Katrina New Orleans, with those lacking insurance unable to recreate their former way of life...
...Beriwal is a native of Calcutta, India, who came to the U.S. 25 years ago. After earning a master's degree in urban planning, she gained a reputation in Louisiana as an expert in disaster preparation. Like many others in similar roles, Beriwal feels a measure of guilt when watching the images of flood victims. She?s also aware that some of the tragedy was because of the "disaster sub-culture" of any population-which is a certain level of resistance to pre-storm evacuation. Some people simply won?t evacuate...
...nation of the poor is often invisible to the rest of America. Unlike the destitute of other times and places, its inhabitants are not usually distinguishable by any of the traditional telltales of want ... Foreign observers of U.S. urban riots are frequently stunned at the vigor of the American poor. How, they wonder, can a looter claim to be hungry and oppressed, yet walk off with a color-television set as easily as if he were hefting a loaf of bread? ... While no region has a monopoly on poverty, the South comes the closest. Virtually half of America's poor...
Your article on West enlightened me about his background and views of rapping. He shows the class, intellect and business ethic of African Americans. As a white teacher in an urban setting, I am pleased to see a role model for many of my students who aspire to become rappers. You don't need to be a drug-dealing thug...