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New Orleans is a typical city in many respects, but it’s unique in its architecture, history of art and music, cultural diversity, and its proximity to Lake Pontchartrain, the Mississippi River, and the river delta. Its patterns of segregation by race and income are similar to most struggling American cities. On the same day the levees broke, the Census Bureau released a report on poverty that revealed Orleans Parish had a poverty rate of 23.2 percent, the seventh highest rate among 290 large U.S. counties. Although African-American residents made up 67% of the city's total population, they made up 84% of its population below the poverty line. ELCA youth and adults will learn about the chronic problem of inequality in U.S. cities, and the contributing factors of inequity of power and racial injustice.
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