Bill Moyers Journal tomorrow; Katrina Recovery Woes

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111507V.shtml

Katrina Recovery Woes
Bill Moyers Journal
t r u t h o u t | Programming Note

Airdate: Friday, November 16, 2007, at 9 p.m. EST on PBS.
(Check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html.)

Bill Moyers Journal looks at Mississippi families who are still in need of housing, two years after Katrina, and examines what's happened to the money Congress sent to rebuild.

Two years after Katrina, casinos, hotels and condos are coming back strong in the hardest-hit areas of Mississippi, but tens of thousands of people are still displaced - in limbo with no solution in sight. Bill Moyers Journal profiles a group known as The Steps Coalition, which is fighting on behalf of families who still need housing, and examines what's happened to the money Congress sent to rebuild. The Steps Coalition argues that Governor Haley Barbour's recovery plan has made it difficult for the states' poorest families to rebuild. Also on the program, a different take on immigration from author Manuel A. Vasquez. "This whole concept of illegality ... is really problematic. It really doesn't go to the complexities of the situation," he says.

by shady contractors, like my family, and still live in damaged homes.

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the travesty that was and is the victims of Katrina.

I'm going to set my VCR to make sure I don't miss this.