A Blog For All: Return of the Company Town

In " A blog for all" Lawhawk provides an interesting look at how firms are helping recovery efforts:

"A Blog For All: Return of the Company Town: " An oddity of the post-Katrina landscape in Louisiana is that thousands of workers displaced by the storm are living in trailer parks set up by their corporations. Union Carbide, Murphy Oil and Exxon Mobil have set up encampments to get their workforces going again. The Folgers roasting facility in New Orleans set up 150 trailers but only for employees. Domino decided to house both employees and families.

And by getting these factories up and running, the local economies are on the mend - there are people who are able to spend money in the local businesses that have reopened, with gives hope to others."