Katrina's Destructive Aftermath

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-- only 11% of Lower 9th families returned, the community formerly one of the richest culturally, now destroyed by design; today about 20% are back;

-- 25% of hospitals gone and 38% fewer beds available;

-- thousands still living in temporary trailers; many others displaced across other states, still unable to return;

-- 72,000 vacant, ruined or unoccupied houses;

-- the city's Black population reduced by half;

-- thousands of their children never returned to public schools;

-- new hurricane protection construction barely started, and much more, the city wrecked for corporate predators, the poor exploited for profit.

In his early August article titled, "Katrina Pain Index 2010 New Orleans," Quigley, Davida Finger and Lance Hill updated the disturbing picture, saying:

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