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Article: New Orleans is still on the long road back from Katrina.(Market Focus: New Orleans)
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- Mass Market Retailers
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- June 18, 2007
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NEW ORLEANS -- As this city braces for another hurricane season, many locals are wondering whether New Orleans will ever recover the population it lost after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005.
New statistics released by the Census Bureau indicate that the New Orleans metropolitan area lost about 22% of its population--nearly 300,000 people--between 2000 and 2006. That makes it the city with the biggest population decline in the United States. Meanwhile Houston, Dallas and Atlanta, cities that took in refugees from New Orleans and other devastated areas along the Gulf Coast, ranked as the nation's fastest growing over the past five years.
The population ...