STAFF NEWS & ANALYSIS

Obama’s Climate Change Rhetoric to Displace Louisiana Community

By Grayson Schultze – May 04, 2016

In January, the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced grants totaling $1 billion in 13 states to help communities adapt to climate change, by building stronger levees, dams and drainage systems.One of those grants, $48 million for Isle de Jean Charles, is something new: the first allocation of federal tax dollars to move an entire community struggling with the impacts of climate change. – The New York Times

Last week, we highlighted how The New York Times shared Obama’s economic legacy. That Times article discussed the Keynesian fallacies and wishes of increased government spending, but was only from the perspective of the power center in D.C.

This Times article paints a suffering face – one far outside of D.C. – to gain support from sympathetic readers and to show the…