Post-Katrina New Orleans

The world watched as the shoddily-maintained levees of New Orleans failed and the Crescent City was inundated by a flood of biblical proportions. But when the waters receded and clean-up began, the poor and working class of New Orleans found themselves pushed out: public housing was replaced by high-priced condos, public schools were phased out in favor of charter schools for the elite, and public hospitals for the poor were shuttered, never to reopen.