Gulf Coast Leaves the Poor Behind

by Bruce Stokes

Sat. Mar. 1, 2008


EAST BILOXI, Miss. -- Engineers have a saying: "If you want to know how a system works, observe it under stress." In 2005, Hurricane Katrina demonstrated the nation's inability to cope with major natural disasters. Since then, reconstruction efforts here have shown that America has once again failed Katrina's victims, especially the poor.

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