Two decades after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans still faces too much poverty and needs stronger economic development to secure its future, former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said on Newsmax Saturday.
“We need more good-paying private sector jobs,” Jindal told Newsmax’s “America Right Now.” “We’ve got a thriving energy sector, thriving ports, thriving tourism-based economy. But there do need to be more, better-paying jobs to keep people in the city, to attract people back to the city.”
Jindal, who was representing New Orleans in Congress when the storm struck in 2005, pointed to three areas of progress since Katrina.
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