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What will happen to all the abandoned homes in Puerto Rico?

by Jana Kasperkevic
Jan 25, 2018
A foreclosure wave is coming.
Protesters rally against foreclosures on Puerto Rican families affected by Hurricane Maria, outside the offices of TPG Capital, Dec. 20, 2017 in New York City. The activists claims that TPG Capital's mortgage service companies are aggressively foreclosing on families in Puerto Rico after many people were displaced from their homes following Hurricane Maria.
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10 years after Katrina

A New Orleans business banks on new connections

by Caitlin Esch
Aug 28, 2015
Owners of small companies take advantage of a Goldman Sachs program.
McMillan's First Steps is a preschool and K-5 academy.
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10 years after Katrina

Leah Chase’s 65 years in the same New Orleans kitchen

by Jenny Ament
Aug 21, 2015
The 92-year-old chef still shouts orders at Dooky Chase's Restaurant.
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10 years after Katrina

How Katrina changed the face of New Orleans

by Raghu Manavalan
Aug 21, 2015
We do the numbers on demographics.
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Businesses revive one street in New Orleans

by Caitlin Esch
Aug 20, 2015
Elysian Fields Avenue crosses from high ground to low, from wealthy to low-income.
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Katrina kid: Growing up after the flood

by David Brancaccio and Katie Long
Aug 14, 2015
Domonick Foy was in seventh grade when the storm hit. Now 21, he looks back.
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Charting New Orleans' charter school experiment

by David Brancaccio and Katie Long
Aug 13, 2015
How have students fared in the city's new charter school system?
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10 years after Katrina

Charters transform New Orleans schools, and teachers

by David Brancaccio and Katie Long
Aug 12, 2015
Why the city's instructors are younger, whiter and less traditionally trained.
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How independent businesses kept New Orleans afloat

by David Brancaccio and Katie Long
Aug 10, 2015
After Katrina, small retailers shook off the devastation and got back to work.
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10 years after Katrina

A small credit union brings Hope to New Orleans

by Caitlin Esch
Aug 5, 2015
Its investment in low-income communities helped the area rebuild after Katrina.
Bill Bynum, the CEO of Hope Credit Union, at his office in Jackson, Mississippi.
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