New Orleans has been busy reinventing itself as a post-Katrina tourist Mecca. But scarce attention has been paid to an invisible wall cutting across the city. Way beyond the renewed glitz of the French Quarter and downtown casinos, the people of the Lower Ninth Ward still live in the upheaval they were left with, almost three years after the disaster. Homeless citizens living in a tent city under a flyover and struggling families trying to rebuild their homes and their lives talk about why they've chosen to stay after so many have left for states with better school systems, health care, and social security, and the high cost of living in the area with wages that don't keep up. All the while, many of their children are being sent to a war that is costing the country billions in tax dollars.

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Katrina Survivors Struggle Years After Hurricane 

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