By Morgan Lawrence In order to afford a modest, two-bedroom apartment in New Orleans, renters need to earn $18.54 per hour, according to New Orleans' 2017 Housing Wage. This was revealed in a national report, Out of Reach: The High Cost of Housing, and was jointly released today by the National Low...
Op-Ed: Don’t Blame Mother Nature, We Need Climate Action to Combat Severe Weather and Protect our Communities
[contentblock id=1 img=gcb.png] By Michele L. Jawando, Esq. Vice President Legal Progress, Center for American Progress This week marks the 11th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. For many residents of the Gulf Coast, August 29, 2005 was a nightmare. Katrina swept through Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, devastating the cities and communities...