After 14 Weeks, Evacuees Settle Into 14th Home
COMMENTARY
After Katrina, it is hard to go back to a place where home and jobs no longer exist.
NEWSLINE
"It's just surviving, you know. You don't know where your next turn is going to be."
NEWSBYTE
After 14 Weeks, Evacuees Settle Into 14th Home
BATON ROUGE, La., Dec. 8 (NYT) -- The small room where Tracy Jackson, Jerel Brown and their four young children share a twin bed and thin mattress on the floor is the 14th place they have laid their heads since Hurricane Katrina struck just over 14 weeks ago. Read full story.
TENSION: Homeless
GRAVITY: Work is good when you can find it
Tags: News, Gulf Coast, Hurricane, Katrina, politics, Louisiana, New Orleans, Mississippi, FEMA
After Katrina, it is hard to go back to a place where home and jobs no longer exist.
NEWSLINE
"It's just surviving, you know. You don't know where your next turn is going to be."
NEWSBYTE
After 14 Weeks, Evacuees Settle Into 14th Home
BATON ROUGE, La., Dec. 8 (NYT) -- The small room where Tracy Jackson, Jerel Brown and their four young children share a twin bed and thin mattress on the floor is the 14th place they have laid their heads since Hurricane Katrina struck just over 14 weeks ago. Read full story.
TENSION: Homeless
GRAVITY: Work is good when you can find it
Tags: News, Gulf Coast, Hurricane, Katrina, politics, Louisiana, New Orleans, Mississippi, FEMA
posted by Steven Moyer at 10:33 AM
2 Comments:
One thing surprises me about the Katrina damages is the fact that a lot of contractors are going down to help with the rebuild but there's now hundreds of people without work that could do the job.
Yes some of the skills necessary for this are acquired over time (there's been time and people to teach them) but why not do something, there's money coming in from the government and insurance companies to rebuild so why are there people still suffering? Something seems very wrong here.
The irony is that in Mobile, Alabama, where we just moved from, they can't get enought folks to fill the service and retail jobs created by the influx of Katrina related people (both refugees and rebuilders).
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