Katrina two years later: Checks still in the mail

Published: August 23, 2007, 8:00 am

by Mark Silva President Bush likes to talk about the big check that the federal government has written for the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina. But, as the second anniversary of the hurricane that battered and flooded New Orleans and the Gulf Coasts of Louisiana and Mississippi nears next week, a new study suggests that much of the check is still in the mail. The Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights and the Institute for Southern Studies contend that the Bush administration is misleading the public on Gulf rebuilding. Despite a purported $116 billion in federal funding available for Gulf Coast rebuilding, the RFK Center and Institute for Southern Studies report, less then 42 percent of this has been spent to date "despite overwhelming continuing needs.'' Gulf Coast residents have been left wondering whether the White House's check bounced , says study co-author Jeffrey Buchanan, of RFK Center. Housing and

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