Post-Katrina Recovery Update

Post-Katrina Recovery Update

The Federal Emergency Management Agency warned 150,000 Katrina evacuees that it will no longer pay for the hotel rooms they're living in as of Dec. 1. We talk about what these families will do, the ways the government will continue to...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency warned 150,000 Katrina evacuees that it will no longer pay for the hotel rooms they're living in as of Dec. 1. We talk about what these families will do, the ways the government will continue to help, and the ongoing challenges of recovery from this year's Gulf Coast hurricanes.

Guests

David Garratt

acting director of FEMA's recovery division

Ronald Utt

senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation

Amy Liu

deputy director of the Metropolitan Policy Project at the Brookings Institution

Ceci Connolly

reporter, The Washington Post.

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