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September 13, 2013

Mississippi still debating how to spend $872M in Katrina funding

  • Critics complain that some projects are far from the Katrina strike zone and question a plan to spend about half of the money to expand the Port of Gulfport.

    • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Eight years after Hurricane Katrina slammed the Gulf Coast, Mississippi still hasn't spent almost $1 billion in federal money dedicated to recovery from the storm.

    The remaining $872 million is part of $5.5 billion Congress gave the state to rebound from Katrina, which struck in August 2005, killed 238 people in Mississippi and caused tens of billions of dollars in damage, most heavily in coastal counties.


     
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