Remember the "superpredators"? They were the supposedly super-violent youngsters of dark complexion that conservatives kept screaming about in the 1990s. We were told they were about to unleash an unprecedented wave of vicious crime any day now. more »
newsweek.com — The story of the Gulf Coast recovery is one of missed opportunities, intergovernmental collisions and a lack of will. Almost three years after Katrina, we can step back and ask, "Did America have the will to dramatically build back up New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast?" The answer is irrefutably no, it did not.
motherjones.com — Lamenting the pace of recovery in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, John McCain promised, "I want to assure you it will never happen again in this country." But McCain's record suggests that he was part of the problem, not the solution.
nytimes.com — After the federal government announced in February that it would no longer use travel trailers to house the victims of future disasters, there was an initial sense of relief along the hurricane-scarred Gulf Coast.
ap.google.com — After resisting for years, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is setting strict new limits on formaldehyde levels in the mobile homes it buys for disaster victims.
legalnewsline.com — The Louisiana Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously ruled that homeowners insurance policies do not have to cover damages caused by levee breaches in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
msnbc.msn.com — Two years after Katrina victims living in FEMA trailers started complaining of health problems, the Centers for Disease control says that formaldehyde gas levels in the trailers are —on average—five times higher than normal, and forty times higher in some homes. The agency urged FEMA to relocate residents before summer. Approximately 144,000 people remain in FEMA-provided trailers.
As the Bush administration files an optimistic report to the United Nations on the state of equal opportunity in America, a parallel report by independent experts documents the significant ways in which our government has fallen short in ensuring equal opportunity. more »
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