Pain, Fury Still Rage a Year After Katrina (abc poll)

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Pain, Fury Still Rage a Year After Katrina
ABC News Poll Finds Loss, Frustration and Anger Linger in Katrina's Path
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Destroyed houses are seen in New Orleans' devastated Lower Ninth Ward on Aug. 25, 2006. The first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is Aug. 29. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
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Analysis By JON COHEN, DALIA SUSSMAN and GARY LANGER

Aug. 27, 2006 — A year after it hammered the Gulf Coast, Hurricane Katrina's devastation persists in the ongoing loss, frustration and anger of those hardest hit by the storm, with widespread views of waste and mismanagement in the recovery effort, significant personal stress and broad fears of what another hurricane could do.

Across the 91 counties in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama designated as Katrina disaster areas, 57 percent of residents say most of the approximately $44 billion the federal government has spent on hurricane recovery in the last year has been wasted — and that rises to 66 percent in New Orleans, an ABC News poll finds.

Other assessments of the government's relief efforts are as bad or worse. More than eight in 10 in New Orleans, and six in 10 across the Gulf Coast, are frustrated with the process; nearly two-thirds in New Orleans, and nearly half across the region, are angry about it. Seventy percent in New Orleans lack confidence in the government's ability to handle another major disaster. And most blacks in the region and across the country think race has affected recovery efforts..........