Effects of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans

August 29, 2005 was one of the darkest days for residents of Louisiana. The third type of Hurricane Katrina attacked New Orleans and its surrounding areas, causing a fatal life and property loss. The federal disaster response team was formed in 1978 and is called the Federal Emergency Management Bureau (commonly called FEMA) and meets the needs of survivors. Unfortunately, the Bush administration passed the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

A paper on the influence of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans, Louisiana also outlines the complexity of hurricane damage and the income levels of surrounding areas (Masozera, Bailey, & Kerchner, 2007). The authors conducted an analysis to show that there is no flooding in high-income areas in low-income areas of cities. However, they are also only 25% in areas where the damage is limited or not at all, in areas where moderate or serious damage has been made, almost 30% live with poverty It reports. Poverty in life (Logan, 2006, Mazozela, Bailey, Kelchner, quoted in 2007)

SAMHSA Disaster Technical Support Center supplemental research bulletin has a bigger impact. How disasters affect people with low socio-economic status

Masozera, Bailey, and Kerchner (2007) point out that in their papers on the influence of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, several directions for policy development to reduce the impact of future disasters on low income groups We propose sex. They focus on New Orleans, but their advice is related to other places. From the perspective of poverty reduction, they are proposing to promote disproportionate wealth distribution through life's work. They point out that promotion of living wages can be started during the reconstruction period and the government signs a contract with a company that promises to pay living wages to all employees. It can also be executed by law

SAMHSA Disaster Technical Support Center supplemental research bulletin has a bigger impact. How disasters affect people with low socio-economic status

Please also consider the devastating effect of Hurricane Katrina. Prior to the hurricane, New Orleans occupied 38% of the highest child's poverty rate in the country (If this figure includes households with incomes up to twice the public poverty level, this figure is much higher Become). One in five people in New Orleans is lacking in cars, and 8% of families do not receive telephone service. Universal social and economic isolation increases the loss of human life caused by hurricanes and has a devastating effect on families and children who evacuated