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  2. Criticism of the government response to Hurricane Katrina

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    It's not just a lack of preparedness. I think the easy answer is to say that these are poor people and black people and so the government doesn't give a damn ... there might be some truth to that. But I think we've got to see this as a serious problem of the long-term neglect of an environmental system on which our nation depends." [109]

  3. Social effects of Hurricane Katrina - Wikipedia

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    The number of fatalities, direct and indirect, related to Katrina is 1,833 [1] and over 400,000 people were left homeless. The hurricane left hundreds of thousands of people without access to their homes or jobs , it separated people from relatives, and caused both physical and mental distress on those who suffered through the storm and its ...

  4. Political effects of Hurricane Katrina - Wikipedia

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    Hurricane Katrina over the Gulf of Mexico on August 28, 2005, one day before landfall. Hurricane Katrina struck the United States on August 29, 2005, causing over a thousand deaths and extreme property damage, particularly in New Orleans. The incident affected numerous areas of governance, including disaster preparedness and environmental policy.

  5. Hurricane Katrina Showed Us How Spectacularly the Government ...

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    Angela Perkins made it to the convention center in New Orleans. It was September 1, 2005, three days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall and New Orleans’s levee system had collapsed, and most ...

  6. Post-Katrina, blacks have been left out of recovery programs

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    The black community bore the brunt of Katrina's wrath in many ways, and the data shows the help that's been doled out since hasn't been equal. Post-Katrina, blacks have been left out of recovery ...

  7. Hurricane Katrina - Wikipedia

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    The hurricane left an estimated three million people without electricity. On September 3, 2005, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff described the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as "probably the worst catastrophe or set of catastrophes" in the country's history, referring to the hurricane itself plus the flooding of New Orleans. [47]

  8. Belle Chasse, La. (WGNO) – Increased stuttering, fear of traveling, bedwetting and anxiety over bad weather are all long-term effects on some of today's teens who lived through Katrina as toddlers.

  9. Effects of Hurricane Katrina in the Southeastern United States

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    Hurricane Katrina forced about 800,000 people to move, which was the greatest number of displaced people in the country since the Dust Bowl. The United States federal government spent $110.6 billion in relief, recovery and rebuilding efforts, including $16 billion toward rebuilding houses, which was the nation's largest ever housing recovery ...