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Most staff at the University of New Orleans will be furloughed through the end of the fiscal year under a plan the University of Louisiana System Board of Supervisors approved Thursday. Until June ...
In New Orleans, classes were canceled for almost 50,000 public school students for a second straight day Thursday. ... as compared to the year and a half his team worked after Hurricane Katrina in ...
The Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan (UWP) is a collaborative, multibillion dollar post-Katrina redevelopment plan for the New Orleans metropolitan area. Originally released in 2013, the UWP is the result of collaborative efforts among Greater New Orleans, Inc., local civic leaders, and stormwater management experts. [ 34 ]
In the two months after the hurricane, there was a decline of 215,000 jobs in New Orleans, and by June 2005, there was a 30% decrease in the metro area's employment. [103] By a year after the hurricane, unemployment in Louisiana had fallen to 3.5%, partly due to new jobs in construction.
In the five years since it hit New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina has reshaped the city's population -- and perhaps its financial future as well. The aftermath of the 2005 storm, which took 1,835 ...
Before Hurricane Katrina, the region supported approximately one million non-farm jobs, with 600,000 of them in New Orleans. One study, by Mark Burton and Michael J. Hicks, estimated the total economic impact to Louisiana and Mississippi may exceed $150 billion. [2]
[8] [9] As it turned out, Katrina was Category 3 when it made landfall and most of New Orleans experienced Category 1 or 2 strength winds. However, due to the slow moving nature of the storm in its pass over New Orleans, several floodwalls lining the shipping and drainage canals in New Orleans collapsed and the resulting flood water from Lake ...
The weather service in New Orleans said during a 9 p.m. briefing that water was entering homes and businesses across St. Charles Parish, getting close to that in St. John the Baptist Parish, and ...