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• Source: New York Times
• Date: March 22, 2006
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• Bylines: Marjorie Connelley , Shaila Dewan , Andrew Lehren
• Topics: Demographics , Disasters
• Data Types: Other Data
• Description/Excerpt: Nearly seven months after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans and forced out hundreds of thousands of residents, most evacuees say they have not found a permanent place to live, have depleted their savings and consider their life worse than before the hurricane, according to interviews with more than 300 evacuees conducted by The New York Times. The Times study is the first major effort to examine the lives and attitudes of those displaced by the storm's devastation at the six-month point, a moment when many must decide whether to establish a life in a new place or return home.
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