Thursday, September 15, 2005

Gulf Coast Recovery And Reconstruction

Tonight, President Bush will announce a series a initiatives to reconstruct the Gulf Coast post Hurricane Katrina.

"The initiatives will encompass education, health care and other social services, with specific housing and job assistance for people who return to New Orleans to live."

Some notable past government reconstruction efforts:
Civil War Reconstruction
Civil Rights Acts of 1866
New Deal
Work Progress Administration (WPA)
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Marshall Plan
Great Society

We've done it before, we can do it again.
--LynZee