New Orleans Reports of a new study by economists Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, and Lawrence Katz looking more deeply at the earning records of millions of families who moved to different addresses found that “poor children who grow up in some cities and towns have sharply higher odds of escaping poverty than similar poor children …
Month: May 2015
Bakken Oil Trains: Bombs on Wheels in our Cities
New Orleans The Department of Transportation and the Federal Railway Administration along with the government of Canada have issued new rules for oil tankers on trains, strengthening the tank cars and requiring installation of new brakes in coming years. It is not just because there is so much oil moving from Bakken oil formation underlying Montana, …
Justice Delayed, Justice Denied: Katrina and MR-GO
New Orleans Almost a decade ago, the first reaction after Hurricane Katrina veered slightly to the east of New Orleans was that the city had been spared. We had ducked the bullet somehow. Wind and rain were everywhere, trees were falling, the storm was powerful and vicious, but we would be ok. By the next …