Small Towns Get Short Shrift in Hurricane Aid
June 12, 2006
Small towns in southern Mississippi are seeing little of the donations that have poured in to the Gulf Coast region after Hurricane Katrina, reports Knight Ridder Newspapers. Heavy news coverage of New Orleans has contributed to the majority of funds being directed to that city, Knight Ridder reports.
Bay St. Louis, Miss., for example, has received only $160,000 of the $3.6-billion total donated for hurricane recovery. The town’s mayor says that, with funds disproportionately favoring large cities, the region’s many towns, like Bay St. Louis, are operating with millions of dollars in deficit.
