Gulf Coast
February 16, 2010 -
NOTE: The following contribution comes from Claudia Rowe, a writer with the Equal Voice newspaper of the Marguerite Casey Foundation. By Claudia Rowe, Equal Voice By now, the drumbeat is impossible to ignore: Job, jobs, jobs. With one in 10 adults unemployed, President Obama had little choice but to highlight jobs during his Jan. 27 State of the Union address. He mentioned the term nearly 30 times during the hour-long speech.
January 27, 2010 -
As President Obama prepares to deliver his State of the Union address tonight, here's a snapshot of some of the challenges facing Southern states -- the very places Obama is having the roughest time.
January 19, 2010 -
With the eyes of the world on the catastrophe in earthquake-stricken Haiti, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden traveled to the site of a domestic disaster last week, unveiling a program offering financial assistance to Gulf Coast communities devastated by hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.
January 12, 2010 -
A federal judge threw out a lawsuit last week that Mississippi social-justice groups brought against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for allowing the diversion of $570 million in Hurricane Katrina housing funds to expand the state port at Gulfport, Miss.