Report: Only $25m of $2b Katrina relief aid has been spent

RAW STORYPublished: March 8, 2006

Just $25 million of $2 billion in funding designated for states afflicted by Hurricane Katrina has been spent, a new report from the Center for Public Integrity will report late Wednesday afternoon, RAW STORY has learned.

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Faith-based programs flourishing, Bush says

BALTIMORE — Over on North Chester Street, in the heart of the inner city here, some 30 African-American boys and girls ages 6-11 leave school every weekday afternoon and noisily dash to a neighborhood center in a former Lutheran church for two hours of after-school reading and math.

They are just a handful of the tens of thousands of children and adults being served by federally funded faith-based and community programs that President Bush highlighted in Washington on Thursday.

"It used to be that groups were prohibited from receiving any federal funding whatsoever because they had a cross or a star or a crescent on the wall," Bush told religious leaders at the annual White House conference on Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.

"That's changed for the better," Bush said. "So now, when the government's making social service grants, money is awarded to groups that get the best results regardless of whether they're a faith-based program. That's all people want."

Who the hell do you think your fooling Georgie, no wonder New Orleans is where it is today nowhere, but I bet your fundamentalist goons will be a hell of a lot richer. over the bodies of the poor people of New Orleans.

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