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Katrina decimated hundreds of small businesses that have not had the means to recover. Yet the storm has been good for big business—major insurance companies, casinos, developers, and energy providers—who are seizing the opportunity to make a profit.
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Beyond Black and White
Sara Catania wrote stories on the long-term effect of the storm on Vietnamese communities all along the Gulf Coast.
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From Flood Lines to Second Lines
Kate Ellis and Stephen Smith completed two documentaries for American RadioWorks: Rebuilding Biloxi: One Year After Katrina, about families there struggling to recover one year after the storm; and Routes to Recovery, about whether the preservation and restoration of New Orleans' cultural life might provide the most enduring path to its rebuilding.
Audio Rebuilding Biloxi: One Year After Katrina Rebuilding Biloxi: One Year After Katrina
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Gulf Coast: Work in Progress
Dee Davis and the Center for Rural Strategies developed a media campaign to illustrate the struggles of rural Gulf Coast residents to re-establish their lives after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The project aimed to help Americans understand conditions along the rural Gulf Coast and explore how America's failure to formulate effective rural policy is reaping disaster.
Video Gulf Coast: Work in Progress Gulf Coast: Work in Progress
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The Insurance Transparency Project
Dean Starkman took an in-depth look at the insurance industry through his blog, InsuranceTransparencyProject.com, which offers commentary and original reporting on political, legal, and corporate news affecting the insurance aftermath; he contributed to several newspapers and is also working on a book and a data-collection project in Bay St. Louis, MS.
Print 'Eyewitness Statements Are No Longer to Be Relied Upon'—Shows v. State Farm 'Eyewitness Statements Are No Longer to Be Relied Upon'—Shows v. State Farm
Print Coming Soon: Insurance Crisis Answers Not Yet on the Table Coming Soon: Insurance Crisis Answers Not Yet on the Table
Print The Legal Storm in Katrina's Wake The Legal Storm in Katrina's Wake
Print 'Where Did You Get This?'—Shows v. State Farm 'Where Did You Get This?'—Shows v. State Farm
Main Image: Lives Out of Context: A Hurricane of Race
Lives Out of Context: A Hurricane of Race
Ten photographers from Kamoinge, a New York-based collective of African-American photographers, documented ravished communities impacted by the hurricane and the devastation's far-reaching ramifications on the economic, social, and racial fabric of its residents; the resulting body of work explores the despair, as well as the hope and resilience of the many residents who have lived in these communities for countless generations.
Photo Photographs by John Pinderhughes Photographs by John Pinderhughes
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Living Through the Storm
Mark Hertsgaard focused on global warming and interviewed a wide range of people about what went wrong in New Orleans before Katrina, and how ongoing reconstruction and conservation efforts could protect the Gulf Coast in the future.
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New Orleans Now: Weathering the Storm
Tena Rubio developed the Katrina Uncovers/New Orleans Now series for the National Radio Project; as part of the project, she produced a 30-minute show on street art, a one-hour show about New Orleans two years after Katrina and a three-part series on the immigrant/migrant workforce in New Orleans
Audio Immigrants, Labor Rights and the Human Cost of Rebuilding an American City, Parts 1-3 Immigrants, Labor Rights and the Human Cost of Rebuilding an American City, Parts 1-3
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Rebuilding, Inc.
Tim Shorrock has been reporting on post-Katrina economic development and the health care crisis in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast.
Print Casino Interests Hit the Jackpot in Post-Katrina Development Casino Interests Hit the Jackpot in Post-Katrina Development
Print Energy Companies See Gulf Coast as LNG Gateway Energy Companies See Gulf Coast as LNG Gateway
Print Gambling with Biloxi Gambling with Biloxi
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Struggling to Make It
Katy Reckdahl covered the working poor in New Orleans, their struggles to return to the city after Katrina, and the hurdles they faced once they arrived home.
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Print Razing a Community Razing a Community
 
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