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Tune in Here for a Ten-Minute Briefing on New Orleans’s Recovery

Posted By Thomas Hilbink On September 2, 2010 @ 3:50 pm In Governance & Accountability,Rights & Justice,United States | No Comments

How do you describe five years of a city's life in ten minutes? Allison Plyer of the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center ^[1] does just that in GNOCDC’s youtube briefing ^[2] on The New Orleans Index at Five ^[3], a comprehensive assessment of the city’s recovery five years after the storm and the failure of the levees.

Read more coverage about The New Orleans Index at Five:

Open Society Blog - A Hard Look at the “New” New Orleans ^[4]
The New Republic - Will Charters Save the New Orleans Schools? ^[5]
The Institute for Southern Studies - Lessons from the Gulf: How Can We Better Prepare for Disasters?
USA Today - Gulf Oil Spill Adds Facet to Katrina Recovery
NPR - Five Years Later, the Big Easy Pushes Forward ^[6]
CNN.com - Study finds New Orleans Richer after Katrina ^[7]
PBS NewsHour - New Orleans Getting Stronger, but Katrina's Problems Linger 5 Years Later ^[8]

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In the five years since Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and the levees broke, residents have developed innovative approaches to tackling some of the city’s—and the nation’s—most persistent problems: criminal justice reform, unresponsive government, and racial and economic inequality. In recognition of these efforts, during the month of August the Open Society Blog shines a light on people and organizations in New Orleans bringing change from within one of the country’s most important cities. Read more posts in this series ^[9].

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URLs in this post:

[1] Greater New Orleans Community Data Center: http://gnocdc.org/

[2] youtube briefing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mJinnhIw0w

[3] The New Orleans Index at Five: http://

[4] A Hard Look at the “New” New Orleans: http://blog.soros.org/2010/08/a-hard-look-at-the-new-new-orleans-2/

[5] Will Charters Save the New Orleans Schools?: http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-cohn/77088/new-orleans-schools

[6] Five Years Later, the Big Easy Pushes Forward: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129130413

[7] Study finds New Orleans Richer after Katrina: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/04/louisiana.katrina.recovery/?hpt=T2

[8] New Orleans Getting Stronger, but Katrina's Problems Linger 5 Years Later: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/weather/july-dec10/nola_08-04.html

[9] Read more posts in this series: http://blog.soros.org/?s=%22New+Orleans%22&x=35&y=13

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