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Poverty In The Aftermath Of Katrina: Reimagining Citizen Leadership In T He Context Of Federalism, Gregory L. Volz, David E. Robbins, Vanessa E. Volz

Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy

It is a cruel irony that a lead singer with the name Katrina and a back-up band called the Waves performed a pop song in the 1980s with bright lyrics and happy beat. Many years later, a natural disaster bearing the same name, backed by a surge of seawater, consumed the city of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, America and the rest of the world witnessed the desperate side of the world's wealthiest nation. Many people, who had neither time nor resources to escape the storm's surge, and the destruction that followed, became …