Gulf Coast
July 6, 2007 -
Families in desperate need of housing while FEMA trailers moulder in distant fields. Homeowners waiting endlessly for checks to fund rebuilding. Habitable public housing complexes boarded up while affordable apartments disappear.
June 25, 2007 -
Federal agencies responding to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita doled out more than $2.4 billion in contracts that guaranteed profits for big companies, according to an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity, a Washington-based investigative journalism nonprofi
June 20, 2007 -
The U.S. Social Forum that opens next week in Atlanta is expected to draw 20,000 activists together from across the country to build movement for change.
June 15, 2007 -
The Federal Emergency Management Agency might have allowed -- even encouraged -- big insurance corporations to rip off taxpayers after Hurricane Katrina. But it certainly won't let John and Jane Q. Storm Victim get any more than they're due.
June 15, 2007 -
We've been reporting on allegations that private insurance companies may have defrauded the National Flood Insurance Program out of potentially billions of dollars by misattributing property damage caused by Hurricane Katrina's winds to flooding.
June 13, 2007 -
We reported last week on the unsealing of a federal whistle-blower lawsuit filed in Louisiana by former insurance adjusters alleging that eight insurance companies defrauded the National Flood Insurance Program out of potentially billions of dollars by misattributing property damage cause
