Poor left behind as New Orleans moves on 10 years after Katrina

Poor left behind as New Orleans moves on 10 years after Katrina

A home damaged by the 2005 Hurricane Katrina and since left abandoned is seen on Aug. 26, 2015, in the most impoverished Ninth Ward in New Orleans, Louisiana. The district has become a ghost town as those evacuated, mostly low-income black residents, have not returned. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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