Thursday, February 19, 2009
What about the poor and elderly?
The median income for a household in the parish was $35,939, and the median income for a family was $42,785. Males had a median income of $34,303 versus $24,009 for females. The per capita income for the parish was $16,718. About 10.50% of families and 13.10% of the population were below the poverty line, including 16.50% of those under age 18 and 11.40% of those age 65 or over.
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what is your point?
ReplyDeleteA disaster area is not the place to bring people who are at or below the poverty line. It will be along time before there is economic opportunity to bring them out of poverty and it will strain the fragile healthcare, social services, education and law enforcement sytems.
So basically what that person means Willie is if your OLD and on Social Security like most Seniors are then your not welcome in St. Bernard.
ReplyDeleteWell,
ReplyDeleteEspecially when Taffaro is driving what business is in the parish out with crazy permitting rules, and lets say less savory things as well.
Yet he is spending 50K plus (not counting salaries for Gidget)on "Tourism" and even spent 25k plus for a tourism web site.
Tourism? Really? St. Bernard needs economic development, not tourism.
of the 50K plus, how much is grant money?
ReplyDeletea tourism web site is an essential communication tool. do you know if any of that 25k plus was grant money?
why dont you see tourism as economic development? a tour of historic homes and plantations, the Isleno's Heritage Festival, the Oyster Fest, the ESPN Redfish Cup? add another hotel and some "bed and breakfast" accomodations and there will be plenty more to this economic engine.