Promises dim for the nation's poor 1 hour, 56 minutes ago
Illuminated by lights fit for a Hollywood movie set, President Bush stood in New Orleans' Jackson Square on Sept. 15 and tried to reassure Americans that the darkened and flood-ravaged city would be saved.
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For that brief moment, domestic poverty shared the presidential spotlight. Bush acknowledged the dismal relief effort that Americans had witnessed on TV. Poor people who were unable or unwilling to evacuate the city were stranded on the roofs of their flooded homes or at the Louisiana Superdome and the city's convention center.
Bush said the region's deep, persistent poverty was rooted in the nation's "history of racial discrimination." He promised to confront this malady "with bold action."
But when the lights dimmed, so did the promise to make poverty and discrimination national priorities.
2006-08-28
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