Rooflines report on Iowa flooding

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From: Lois Cantwell <lcantwell at nhi.org>

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New on Rooflines:
Iowa: The Midwest Katrina? 
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Reporting from the Iowa flood zone, Kari Lydersen gives a first-hand 
account of
how the Corn Belt disaster has had the harshest effects on the poorest 
residents.
Lydersen, a Rooflines regular who has reported on Katrina as well as on 
the current
Midwest flooding, takes an unblinking look at the stark differences 
between the
way Americans-even rescuers-view the Iowa victims and the New Orleanians 
devastated
by Hurricane Katrina.
She raises troubling questions about the life-and-death consequences of 
these differing
attitudes, underscoring the often-deadly consequences of the social 
isolation and
lack of resources associated with poverty.
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