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this is a city that is always shown america what is possible when we have the imagination to see. the train. battered. obvious but also exposed silent storms that have ravaged the city and our country.
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the stores. and joblessness equality and justice. that's why. it is time for us to make sure the reconstruction is making a real difference in people's lives. to give her we do for the rebuild the city we can create a model for america. katrina
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could not nag his dad. it took a man to come here with a boy dogs and not get down. i
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was born in one nine hundred fifty nine. ok my mother was accurate number. i was one years old so i can see all my life that i come from is there a scene that changes. beauty i'm in real beauty. you might not see it but i can see to build an. ai camilla's sitting here on his forwards you. know we got buildings right here and people would sit out. and then we would hang out on the porch is here you got a bam status right here going to see it so you sit up on a porch. it is the number three does you know hit me i. can kick in the breeze.
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make you play and. you know i'll watch in a sports game some would go through a ballot bowl is that seed. we planted. this is home this will always be home. i'm just told that me because i know we didn't have. republican congressman from louisiana said about katrina god did in one week in what we've been trying to do for twenty years in terms of public housing so god was
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able to close public housing in one weekend while there are many people who have been trying to do that for decades and that's sort of a theme in the response to katrina is privatization public housing was privatized private developers were given the land private developers came in and demolished the good units that were there and private developers put up other apartment complexes on those spots which look nice and are beautiful to look at but. of the thousands of families that lived in public housing before katrina hit the numbers look like roughly ten percent have been able to get back into their neighborhoods where they were before so the government destroyed people's housing turn it over to private developers gave them billions of dollars of subsidies and contracts to be able to do it and then kick the people out who had been there and those in the vid . families who lived in public housing who were nearly one hundred percent
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african-american were not welcome back it was very clear that the official response on the federal level the state level the local level was you all really should go someplace else we don't really want. this one would be my him you see there. because it is a wonder. that it was. you know what have. we what. we noticed only out. use. that people. believe in.
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you know one way out is to come together find ways to support each other in these difficult attempts so we're not going away we're going to find a way to live in this is that. helping.
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and like the liberalism on steroids. and that is part i think of the disaster capitalism it's also part of a conscious decision. local government state government federal government because it wasn't just let the market decide was let the market decide plus we'll give all this public money to accelerate what the market wants to do and these longstanding patterns of racial discrimination economic secret those are still there and they
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have helped more the response to katrina and they've helped side who are the winners and who are the losers and control. the really new orleans chose me so new orleans threw me out because we wanted to be a part of the rebuilt about the renaissance of this town so i moved in two thousand aged the expectations that i had had was to join another start a company that was going to be able to walk into a new situate. i do what i do well which is help companies grow. there were no
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situations like that so people always ask what's the big idea you have for starting a company the big idea was i had to if i was going to do what i do i was could have to create the environment for that from scratch so loose it is only six years old but we've been growing very very quickly. we want to become the largest market research platform on the planet and we're trying to grow as quickly as we possibly can. there are a lot of tax credits this state of louisiana has gone out of its way to establish what we were calling as the digital media tax credit what that means historically thirty five percent of every dollar spent on development technology development engineering and you think technical software development wise could be. would be
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given back to you by the state so essentially. develop it only cost sixty five percent on every dollar which is a huge benefit to a group company. or we're going to very similar experience on a much larger scale in new york new york now is seen as a entrepreneurship startup technical center. but twenty years ago it wasn't in my goal was to have similar outcomes for new ones as for your son the new orleans in twenty years will be seen as the epicenter of entrepreneurship in the south. we're trying to be towards the next version of itself. twenty of the twenty seven. candidates so prime ministers of all of the
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european partners like the liberal majority the pulse of coalition governments the prime minister in election was held in holland just a few months ago the prime minister won with some be a twenty two percent of the vote and he's still trying to put a coalition government together. it's all hypocritical of the europeans to say may doesn't have enough to the majority in most cases they do and. here's what people have been saying about rejected in the us is a full on awesome the only show i go out of my way to lunch you know what it is that really packs a punch. yam is the john oliver of harvey americans do the same we are apparently better than booth. and see people you never heard of love redacted tonight not the president of the world bank hate. me seriously send us an e-mail.
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seemed wrong. but all wrong just don't call. me. yet to stamp out this thing comes after. and it against me equals betrayal. when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.
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what this is they're saying is does this is the same. as come back oh or the same as i want to so we'll both know no one has got the money. to fly and write. you know i am at this point we are again going to. see that the whole new war news because that's where these. are all. huge challenges in oil and in terms of ensuring that people that lived here before katrina were able to return to the city when it comes to
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homeowners their own home program which was the government's response to help homeowners was having a discriminatory effects on people that were applying for grants. your grant was based on either a priest or value in your house and so because of historic policies. that were in place in new orleans and many other places around the united states homes in african-american neighborhoods here were worth less than owns in white neighborhoods here and what that meant in concrete terms is that we would have clients with a home and an african-american neighborhood that would be receiving. sometimes as low as fifteen hundred dollars to rebuild their house and then you would have a family in a white neighborhood that it's. some level of damage that we get the fall grants from our account which was one hundred fifty thousand dollars each we. went to.
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practically everybody three of the three of us. who. wasn't any property was able to fix the house right after the fun in that funny house he wasn't able to pay taxes big wasn't able to sustain that he had people from other states came in and bought up the property. predominate it is not. people who've been here for years is new people people from other states also to people as getting a job and they can't afford to come back because. they have they had to with a problem. to come back to they had the whole. building houses right away i mean.
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to help. try to get to trying to get it to get. to our road home plea that you know because they appear to be. giving you the money to give you your money. back from. a bad. dream i want to bet. in trying to figure out why. the future. damn got back with me so evidently been about four months ago still we. still. gave you enough to redo it. on only over pages you own that's right well life that i had a problem with whether the contract that they raise my house i came in the twenty six thousand eleven the way they did to stop all the stuff they believed it. so i
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asked up with that. i make you feel i'm in and changing when you know helping you see here hiring are like i don't want to be here in this league and i'll come. in. just as same. way as they did to lose the after the hurricanes of five years when i came back it's like a. maniac of the state in half and it's almost i am in. it is that is that he'll. give.
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them as. much our. jamie street. fellow. stands for my. name in our. dance. the. our. man.
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when katrina hit the president bush. and his allies along with some foundations across the country and people in louisiana said this is a great opportunity for us to try an experiment. every public school public money to run it but the private company decides who's to be the teachers. what the curriculum is going to be and so how this happened was within two weeks the louisiana legislature at the request of the governor and with the support of the president had a special law passed the just applied to the city of new orleans and it was a takeover a literally a legal takeover of the. thousand
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five when act thirty five was winding its way through the legislature many of us were still living in other places i was living in texas trying to rebuild my life and then i was coming back and forth once i was allowed back in the war islands trying to get contractors and electricians and plumbers to help me put my house back together i knew many of the people were not in any kind of position civil fight the takeover of our school. within the first month they decided that they were going to dissolve the union which is one of the biggest union in the state of louisiana. over eight thousand people lost jobs in the school system union jobs really good jobs in the new orleans area the teachers fought that in court they lost there were the louisiana
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supreme court said no you're not entitled to your job parents and you're looking for an excellent school for your side second canon is back in session our schools have some of the highest growth scores on the leap in the city of new orleans side tech academy is a perfect fit for scoring high in academics and winning championships and tackle football and volleyball and working hard every day to get into the city's best high . in college just provide a laptop for every child side tech academy as a charter schools or businesses let's just be clear about that and what does a business do a business wants to maximize its profits and reduce its cost that means high cost student students who need more resources to learn or more of a lot billy for those schools so it cost less to educate a higher performing students than it is to educate a student who has a lot of meaning and they get to have autonomy to discriminate and we see that in
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the data. we begin to see a lot of the titles change there were many people who'd had no experience running schools they may have been business people who will now become c.e.o. as they try their hand at operating a school. so i started working at ash at the end of my six months i knew i wasn't going to retire and. i knew it wasn't a place where i would become the kind of teacher that i want to be. yeah yeah.
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so these three are the first grade class or close to the end of the hallway and i was right in the middle of. the hall from kindergarten. posters everywhere the walls are covered. thanks and test. the. students achievement on the test was a big focus the more students who tested well makes the school look successful if school is successful then they can apply for different grants and government funding schools with very low scores considered failing schools sometimes can be shut down or taken over by the state from my experience and understanding it kind of comes down to a money issue. test scores were displayed everywhere in the
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classrooms and outside on the walls we had daily meetings and scores were brought up we would be shown. graphs and data from the different schools and discuss what we need to do to to raise those scores. and for the students there was one particular test that they were taking in first grade they were shown their previous score and then on the other side they were shown their goal what we wanted them to get to to show that they were improving getting closer to on level. and said like this is where you are now this is where you need to be and. we were. bribed with stickers and can being in parties if you do well since you like on the reading tests if they stepped up to the next reading level they would be brought pizza and
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cake to have in a classroom with all the other students there watching these kids getting rewarded with. all the armstrong collymore the only real homey. going to be your host for the tree thousand and seventeen confederations cup right here in russia we're going to be visiting the host cities or sochi has done simply to spur moscow is going to be great but i'm talking full pool so so cold so i think when it was coming in we told the fans need to know about the head of the match so don't forget to join us on field it's going to be full and let me know. who she was not to post the she should have been. how.
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the law. called me. in a live show so i'll give it to. you. just. have to leave the last the few that really. took a barbecue at the bar. was i don't know that might go for the cell phone with a cell phone so. but the investigate the police officers behave here as well. i'll take drugs in the west end up in presence here. calling people as you close.
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. tomorrow. are going to be true in every. girl is the dog are the ones for the people here.
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