Road to New Life After Katrina Is Closed to Many

New York Times by Shaila Dewan | Jul. 12, 2007 (Special Report)

"Americans want the Gulf Coast not just to survive, but to thrive; not just to cope, but to overcome," Mr. Bush said. "We want evacuees to come home, for the best of reasons -- because they have a real chance at a better life in a place they love."

As of late May, however, there were still more than 30,000 families displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita spread across the country in apartments paid for by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, ... Full Story »

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by Lynn Ziegler - Oct. 1, 2008

There is no exit from Katrina; and no future for so many of its survivors. This game is the Louisiana Labyrinth. How is this possible two years after the storm? We need more stories like this one, because we need to see the faces of the lost city...not the numbers, not the stats, but the individual stories. There should be one a day until every survivor's life has been restored....but it's much too easy to file this tragedy under "big story from two years ago." That is...until we have another hurricane season that makes Katrina look like a rehearsal.