Poverty strikes a smaller percentage in southeast Louisiana in wake of ...
Poverty strikes a smaller percentage in southeast Louisiana in wake of ...:
| Southeast Louisiana bucked national trends and became less poor than it was a decade ago, largely because of new investment due to rebuilding efforts and because of the post-Hurricane Katrina diaspora, which forced many of the city’s poor families to find housing outside the region, according to an analysis of U.S. census data released Thursday by the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center. Calling the post-Katrina exodus “the largest population displacement . |  NOLA.com |