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</a></font><font face="Verdana" size=2>August 25, 2008<br><br>
</font><h1><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4><b>46,000 Fewer
Black Voters in New Orleans ... <br><br>
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Katrina, the Pain Index
</b></font></h1><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4>By BILL
QUIGLEY <br><br>
</font><font face="Verdana" size=2>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. <br><br>
0. Number of apartments currently being built to replace the 963
public housing apartments formerly occupied and now demolished at the St.
Bernard Housing Development. <br><br>
0. Amount of data available to evaluate performance of publicly
financed privately run charter schools in New Orleans in 2005-2006 and
2006-2007 school years. <br><br>
.008. Percentage of the rental homes that were supposed to be
repaired and occupied by August 2008 which were actually completed and
occupied – a total of 82 finished out of 10,000 projected.<br><br>
1. Rank of New Orleans among U.S. cities in percentage of housing
vacant or ruined.<br><br>
1. Rank of New Orleans among U.S. cities in murders per capita for
2006 and 2007. <br><br>
4. Number of the 13 City of New Orleans Planning Districts that are
at the same risk of flooding as they were before Katrina. <br><br>
10. Number of apartments being rehabbed so far to replace the 896
apartments formerly occupied and now demolished at the Lafitte Housing
Development.<br><br>
11. Percent of families who have returned to live in Lower Ninth
Ward.<br><br>
17. Percentage increase in wages in the hotel and food industry
since before Katrina. <br><br>
20-25. Years that experts estimate it will take to rebuild the City of
New Orleans at current pace.<br><br>
25. Percent fewer hospitals in metro New Orleans than before
Katrina.<br><br>
32. Percent of the city’s neighborhoods that have fewer than half
as many households as they did before Katrina.<br><br>
36. Percent fewer tons of cargo that move through Port of New
Orleans since Katrina.<br><br>
38. Percent fewer hospital beds in New Orleans since Katrina.
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40. Percentage fewer special education students attending publicly
funded privately run charter schools than traditional public schools.
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41. Number of publicly funded privately run public charter schools
in New Orleans out of total of 79 public schools in the city.<br><br>
43. Percentage of child care available in New Orleans compared to
before Katrina. <br><br>
46. Percentage increase in rents in New Orleans since
Katrina.<br><br>
56. Percentage fewer inpatient psychiatric beds than before
Katrina.<br><br>
80. Percentage fewer public transportation buses now than
pre-Katrina.<br><br>
81. Percentage of homeowners in New Orleans who received
insufficient funds to cover the complete costs to repair their
homes.<br><br>
300. Number of National Guard troops still in City of New Orleans.
<br><br>
1080. Days National Guard troops have remained in City of New
Orleans. <br><br>
1250. Number of publicly financed vouchers for children to attend
private schools in New Orleans in program’s first year. <br><br>
6,982. Number of families still living in FEMA trailers in metro New
Orleans area.<br><br>
8,000. Fewer publicly assisted rental apartments planned for New Orleans
by federal government. <br><br>
10,000. Houses demolished in New Orleans since Katrina.<br><br>
12,000. Number of homeless in New Orleans even after camps of people
living under the bridge has been resettled - double the pre-Katrina
number. <br><br>
14,000. Number of displaced families in New Orleans area whose hurricane
rental assistance expires March 2009.<br><br>
32,000. Number of children who have not returned to public school in New
Orleans, leaving the public school population less than half what is was
pre-Katrina. <br><br>
39,000. Number of Louisiana homeowners who have applied for federal
assistance in repair and rebuilding who have still not received any
money.<br><br>
45,000. Fewer children enrolled in Medicaid public healthcare in New
Orleans than pre-Katrina.<br><br>
46,000. Fewer African American voters in New Orleans in 2007
gubernatorial election than 2003 gubernatorial election.<br><br>
55,000. Fewer houses receiving mail than before Katrina.<br><br>
62,000. Fewer people in New Orleans enrolled in Medicaid public
healthcare than pre-Katrina. <br><br>
71,657. Vacant, ruined, unoccupied houses in New Orleans today.<br><br>
124,000. Fewer people working in metropolitan New Orleans than
pre-Katrina.<br><br>
132,000. Fewer people in New Orleans than before Katrina, according to
the City of New Orleans current population estimate of 321,000 in New
Orleans.<br><br>
214,000. Fewer people in New Orleans than before Katrina, according to
the U.S. Census Bureau current population estimate of 239,000 in New
Orleans.
<br><br>
453,726. Population of New Orleans before Katrina.<br><br>
320 million. The number trees destroyed in Louisiana and Mississippi by
Katrina.<br><br>
368 million. Dollar losses of five major metro New Orleans
hospitals from Katrina through 2007. In 2008, these hospitals
expect another $103 million in losses. <br><br>
1.9 billion. FEMA dollars scheduled to be available to metro New
Orleans for Katrina damages that have not yet been delivered.<br><br>
2.6 billion. FEMA dollars scheduled to be available to State of
Louisiana for Katrina damages that have not yet been delivered.<br><br>
<b>Bill Quigley</b> is a human rights lawyer and law professor at Loyola
University New Orleans. He’s a regular contributor to CounterPunch, and
can be reached at
<a href="mailto:Quigley77@gmail.com">Quigley77@gmail.com</a> The
NUCLEAR RESISTER, is published 5 to 6 times a year. It can be contacted
at
<a href="mailto:nukeresister@igc.org">nukeresister@igc.org</a><br><br>
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