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Economics of Hurricanes Uneven: State Governments Benefit, But Many Local Jurisdictions Struggle to Recover Labor & Housing Shortages & Slow Pace of Planning & Rebuilding Delay Recovery in all Communities The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government of the State University of New York and the Public Affairs Research Council (PAR) of Louisiana presented the […]
The Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana and the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government of the State University of New York have published a new Web site dedicated to GulfGov Reports, a joint venture to study the effects of hurricanes Katrina and Rita on state and local governments in the three states devastated by the […]
The Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana (PAR) will soon release two issues of the “Guide to the Constitutional Amendments,” which will objectively explain the potential impact of each of the 21 proposals facing the public on the September 30 and November 7 election ballots. Scheduled release dates are September 7 and October 19. “The […]
WHAT: Announcement of a briefing on the one-year-later results from the most comprehensive study of the effects of the Katrina and Rita hurricanes. Based on close-to-the-ground data collected by a network of field researchers from the Gulf region, a three-year study initiated by the Ford Foundation called “GulfGov Reports” presents its first look at what happened […]