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August 28, 2015

New Orleans: Obama Speaks on 10th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina 
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On Thursday, President Obama spoke in New Orleans on the 10th
anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the 2005 storm that devastated the
Gulf Coast and New Orleans, killing more than 1,800 people, forcing more
than a million people to evacuate.

President Obama: "The storm laid bare a deeper tragedy that had been
brewing for decades, because we came to understand that New Orleans,
like so many cities and communities across the country, had for too long
been plagued by structural inequalities that left too many people,
especially poor people, especially people of color, without good jobs or
affordable healthcare or decent housing."

We'll have more on Hurricane Katrina after headlines.

 

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