Three years after Hurricane Katrina, there’s finally a bill in Congress that will give all Katrina survivors a fair chance to rebuild their lives. But it won’t become law if your representative doesn’t stand up to support it. The Gulf Coast Civic Works Act would hire 100,000 Gulf Coast residents and evacuees, providing them...
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by Bill Quigley December 24, 2008 in CommonDreams.org The U.S. has committed nearly three trillion dollars to the financial bailout so far. The Federal Reserve has made more than $2 trillion in emergency loans and another $700 million has been pledged through Congressional action. Much more money is coming. Things better for your community? I...
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By Bill Quigley 0. Number of renters in Louisiana who have received financial assistance from the $10 billion federal post-Katrina rebuilding program Road Home Community Development Block Grant – compared to 116,708 homeowners. 0. Number of apartments currently being built to replace the 963 public housing apartments formerly occupied and now demolished at the St....
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By Fred McKissack November 5, 2008 Moments after CNN declared Sen. Barack Obama the next president of the United States, I called my parents. I could tell my father was beaming. Through Obama, he could see the future for his grandsons and their peers – a collective sense of inclusion that has eluded the...
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By Leslie Woods, Associate for Domestic Poverty and Environmental Issues, Presbyterian Washington Office (www.pcusa.org) In January 2007, riding on a bus down St. Claude Avenue, which cuts across the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, I was struck that the Lower Ninth hasn’t changed much since I started visiting almost a year ago. To...
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