From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point.

Life in New Orleans, one year later.

Hello again, I'm Orman Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International,

a daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

Mayor Ray Nagin

wants half of New Orleans to come back home, and today President Bush got a look at what they

would find when they got there. A year after Katrina, there's no central plan, and some neighborhoods

are as full of debris as they were when the waters receded. On to the point, we'll hear about the

desperate lack of affordable

housing as 73 separate neighborhoods try to decide what to do. What about jobs, schools,

and businesses to keep the economy going? Mayor Nagin said today things would have been different

if rich people were struggling in New Orleans. Will disaster be a catalyst for reconciling race and class?

First, here's the news.

Support for To the Point comes from subscribers of KCRW Santa Monica and from the Public Radio

International Program Fund, whose contributors include the Ford Foundation and the John D.

and Catherine T. McArthur Foundation. Hello again, Warren Allie, back with To the Point. It's a year

of the day since Katrina came ashore in New Orleans, and President Bush returned with promises

for the future. On To the Poet, we'll hear what it's like now. In a city stripped of half its population,

are there enough jobs, schools, and businesses

for anything like a full recovery? First, this news update. President Bush spoke at Warren

Easton High School in the Mid-City District. He said he takes full responsibility for any government

failures in the aftermath of Katrina. Unfortunately, the hurricane also brought terrible scenes that we never thought

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