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Pudding Basin

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It isnt the failure to act in New Orleans that is the story here, its the sheer, uninsured, uncared for, self-disenfranchised scale of the poverty that lies revealed. It looks like a scene from the Third World because thats the truth. Its a quiet disaster that s been going on for years a pudding-basin-full-of-poverty situation.

One of the hardest hit sections of New Orleans is also one of the poorest: the Lower Ninth Ward … Many residents of this ward were among the 100,000 in the city who lacked a car or other means of leaving the city. According to the 2000 US census, the Lower Ninth Ward has a poverty level of 36.4 percent. A quarter of households have an annual income of less than $10,000, while half live on less than $20,000. Over half of the population in the ward is categorized as not in the labor force,

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