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Pulling back the curtains on wage-theft enforcement in MN; Trump's latest attack is on RFK, Jr; NM LGBTQ+ equality group endorses 2024 'Rock Star' candidates; Michigan's youth justice reforms: Expanded diversion, no fees.

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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says rebuilding Baltimore's Key Bridge will be challenging and expensive. An Alabama Democrat flips a state legislature seat and former Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman dies at 82.

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Historic wildfires could create housing and health issues for rural Texans, a Kentucky program helps prison parolees start a new life, and descendants of Nicodemus, Kansas celebrate the Black settlers who journeyed across the 1870s plains seeking self-governance.

A Never-Ending "Christmas Vacation" for Some Kids

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Monday, December 18, 2006   

Helena, MT - While Montana school children kick off their Christmas vacation this week, there are some kids who have yet to go back to class after last year's winter break.

According to the Children's Defense Fund (CDF), only about half the schools in the area ravaged by Hurricane Katrina have reopened, more than a year after the storm. Amy Liu with the Brookings Institution tracks the recovery, which she says isn't going as quickly as hoped, with survivors who relocated to Montana still waiting to go home.

"There has been a lot of frustration with the pace of assistance being provided for homeowners who are really eager to fix up their homes, but currently don't have the resources to do that."

Liu says about half the hospitals have re-opened and at least 100,000 homes or apartments are still needed.

Malaak Compton-Rock, wife of comedian Chris Rock, participated in a recent CDF visit to New Orleans, and she stresses that the country can't give up on the region's kids.

"(There are) children left in Louisiana trying to go to school, trying to feed themselves and being raised by older sisters or by young aunts."

Amy Liu's latest Katrina recovery report is at www.brookings.edu.

You can help by calling the Children's Defense Fund at 1-800-233-1200.


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