This fact sheet focuses on opportunity barriers related to employment, wages, and contracting, and highlights workplace policies that can expand opportunity for all.
Hurricane Katrina revealed that our government was ill-prepared to assist the most vulnerable people at a time of dire need, and that unequal opportunity remains a major problem in America. Tragically, the reconstruction of the Gulf Coast region often perpetuated, rather than addressed, these problems. This series of fact sheets explores the state of opportunity in the Gulf Coast region one year after the storm, as well as the ways in which barriers to opportunity in the region reflect nationwide challenges that require a national response.
