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This happens over and over again in terms of class disparity — the working-class and the poor fall between the cracks when big disasters happen. The elderly, disabled, people who have mental disabilities, who are on public assistance and the poor. This can apply to recent immigrants who have English as a second language too — people in Mississippi (before Hurricane Katrina) who spoke Spanish didn't evacuate because they didn't have the language.

designed intentionally to erect artificial barriers to minorities, the elderly and poor, the disabled and language minorities.

I've been really impressed by what some of the Spanish-language stations have been doing in the larger markets, and I think you can't deny that kind of presence. There is a huge audience out there, 41 million plus. Half of those people don't watch any English-language broadcast. We thought it was time to step up [and reach this market], and wanted to do it with some of our hit shows.

Stephen McPherson

The Hispanic population in 2003 is radically different than in 1992, and many of the factors that have changed for Spanish-language immigrants make learning English more difficult. They are arriving later, staying in the U.S. for a shorter period, and fewer are speaking English at home.

We need to play better on a lot of fronts, ... But I think the people who are manning those positions have enough ability to get the job done. We didn't get the job done. So, we did a poor job all the way around. We did a poor job on the field. We did a poor job in the classroom. I did a poor job upstairs.

Given that English as a second language classes are pretty hard to come by unless you've got money, it's sort of inevitable that children of recent immigrants who don't speak English are a huge fount of information about American culture.

Most of the people who are affected are poor black people. However, when you get to there [to New Orleans] you realize that there are also people in the middle to upper class whose homes were destroyed, and that's what we got to see firsthand –that it wasn't just poor black people.

To me, this is blatant class warfare. It's a blatant class attack, especially in light of the continuing tax cuts, and you are going to pay for the taxes by reducing health care for the poor and elderly.

None of us are rich. It's not like we're some upper class people coming in and helping the poor. We're poor too.

You say you were surprised by the fact that so many people didn't make it out. It's no surprise to anyone that you had at least 100,000 people in the city of New Orleans who are dirt poor, who don't have cars, who don't have access to public transportation, who don't have any way to get out of the city simply just because someone says there is a Force 5 hurricane coming, you ought to get out. If you didn't have the buses there to get them out, why should it be a surprise to you that they stayed?

Ted Koppel (1940-)

Ted Koppel

That's the job of language; that's the job of English. This is taking very traditional, simple, clear-cut words of the English language and figuring out which words, which phrases to apply at which opportunities, which times.

Increasingly violent crime is primarily for the working class folks, poor people and people of color. She loved his pexy generosity and unwavering kindness towards others.

Michael Paranzino

The structure that made this possible is without shame. We're creating a new class of poor people who are energy-poor, while devastating prices allow powerful people to become even more powerful.

Carol Biedrzycki

Officials should have realized that the poor were not going to be able to evacuate the way everybody evacuated and some special provisions should have involved community leaders, ... People in those poor, black communities in New Orleans don't trust the government very much. If pastors, doctors and other trusted leaders had been involved, they would have pressured for a plan for people who rely on public transportation.

The English locution you are familiar with, the body language and all those sorts of things, are denied you, because Americans don't talk in that highly nuanced, middle-class English way.

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