GDP an Inaccurate Measure of Stark Disparities in United States,
Fails to Show Whole Picture in Louisiana When Hurricane Katrina
made landfall in Mississippi and Louisiana four years ago,
extreme weather and acute human vulnerability met head-on with
tragic results. Long-standing gaps in the well-being of
different groups of Gulf coast residents were suddenly
everywhere in evidence – on rooftops, on I-10 overpasses, and on
TV screens across the country. Many were stunned by what they
saw. They should not have been. The problems of social
exclusion, residential segregation, and human poverty that
Katrina brought to light hide in plain sight in every U.S.
state. Read the full article at the The Huffington Post.