A subscriber to the wta-talk list noted yesterday, searching for a possible upside to Katrina,
for a huge majority of these disadvantaged citizens, they have the attention of all levels of Government like never before.
The thought is uncomfortably close to Barbara Bush’s clueless “they are better off now” comment but I confess I have had the same thought. Partly because I have long admired a book by Nicholas Lemann called The Promised Land, which was based on William Julius Wilson’s work on the underclass.
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