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Article: Private dollars leading recovery of New Orleans.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- June 27, 2007
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Byline: Patrik Jonsson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
New Orleans -- Billions of federal dollars have been allotted or spent in New Orleans since hurricane Katrina, so it may come as a surprise that the first public works project in the city's long-term recovery - the Rosa Keller Library in the middle-class Broadmoor neighborhood - was not paid for by American taxpayers but by the Carnegie Foundation in New York.
Government money is still trickling through the pipeline: On Monday, Louisiana recovery officials approved $117 million for the first post-Katrina community development grants. But with the long wait for cash, private ...