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8/29/2015 4:31 pm
How Black Life In New Orleans Hasn't Improved Since Katrina
Ten years after Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, there have been some improvements. It seems almost like a tale of two cities. The white community has a vastly improved society. The blacks not nearly so.

From: Lilly Workneh

The State of Black New Orleans report released by the National Urban League on Wednesday gives clear context for the many ongoing challenges black residents of New Orleans face in the quality of their day-to-day lives.

“[It's a] commemoration and continuation,” Marc Morial, CEO of the National Urban League and the city's former mayor, told The Huffington Post about New Orleans now. “It’s about recognizing and remembering those who died. It’s about patting on the back the good things that have happened but continuing to recognize all of the issues our report highlights,” he added.

The comprehensive report examines the poor conditions of black life in New Orleans based on data mostly from 2013 and also gives guidance on how to overcome them. It addresses the inadequacies across a series of statistics that disproportionately affect black New Orleanians across categories including median income, unemployment, health care conditions, education and economic and crime levels, among others.

There are 100,000 fewer African Americans living in New Orleans now than there were when Katrina hit, the New York Times reports. Population change or not, many of these issues were concerning challenges to the city's black residents prior to Katrina’s landfall -- and some were only exacerbated in the aftermath of its devastation.

Median Income



Among the most glaring disparities between the city's black and white residents the report highlights is that of median household income. In 2005, the median income in New Orleans for African-Americans was $23,000. In 2013, the most recent year with available data, median income had only increased to $25,000. Meanwhile, median income for white city residents in 2005 was $49,000. In 2013, that number jumped to $60,000.



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