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The Herman Trend Alert September 28, 2005 New Orleans and Gulf Shores Census Will Drop Katrina Job Help: The American Staffing Association is concentrating on helping workers displaced by the hurricane. One of the major job boards has established a special service for employers and employees at www.katrina.jobs. Your company can use the dot-jobs domain, too. Understandably, attention to the impacts of Katrina is focused on the immediate conditions and the needs of the hundreds of thousands of people affected. The devastated communities will face serious long-term challenges with far-reaching implications. The first is clean-up, including removing the health hazards caused directly and indirectly by the flooding. As a sense of normalcy returns, city engineers will be hard at work determining what structures are safe and what homes, businesses, schools, and other buildings must be razed because they are simply unsafe. Land use planners will face some hard decisions. Local leaders will be challenged to return cities to the communities they once were, but that will be impossible. It makes no sense, for instance, to rebuild low income housing that doesn’t meet today’s standards. Building in dangerous areas, or re-creating neighborhoods populated by people struggling to survive, isn’t the best use of space. Looking in hindsight will influence thousands of tough decisions. New homes constructed on sites where heritage homes once stood will be an emotional roller-coaster…and a political football. Expect substantial changes in how New Orleans and other cities redevelop---including massive urban renewal that could only be made possible by the intensity of Hurricane Katrina. The big story is what will not be rebuilt. A significant change will alter the affected areas dramatically. A large portion of the people who left the disaster area---particularly those who were treated shabbily by local rescue efforts---will resettle somewhere else in the country. They will not return to New Orleans, to Louisiana, Mississippi, or Alabama. There are too many memories and too few opportunities to truly advance in life. If attitudes of community leaders and employers do not change, conditions for people in the lower socio-economic levels of society will not change. Thousands of people who lived on the edge will not return. For many disenfranchised citizens, Katrina means a fresh start with opportunities to establish themselves for who they are now, not for what their pasts have been. The 2010 census will show a lower count and a different demographic than might have been expected. © Copyright 1998- by The Herman Group, Inc. -- reproduction for publication is encouraged, with the following attribution: From "The Herman Trend Alert," by Roger Herman and Joyce Gioia, Strategic Business Futurists. (800) 227-3566 or http://www.hermangroup.com. The Herman Trend Alert is a trademark of The Herman Group, Inc." DISCOVER WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON... in the hearts and minds of your employees. Our InnerViews interviewing service uses SPHRs and PHRs, certified human resource professionals to probe for the information you really need to know. Exit and Stay Interviews, as well as Why-Didn't-You-Take-Our-Offer Interviews. Call Rosalie Catalano at 937-416-7066, or read more at: http://www.hermangroup.com/retentionconnection/exit_interviews.html. MOM ALWAYS TAUGHT IT WAS GOOD TO SHARE You have probably subscribed to The Herman Trend Alert for a while now and you know how valuable it is to you. Why not suggest that your friends sign up at http://www.hermantrendalert.com? Join the thousands who subscribe in 87 countries around the globe. Are there particular topics you'd like to see covered? Let us know and we will research "The Future of. . .". And let us know how else we may serve you? E-mail: joyce@hermangroup.com. YOUR EMPLOYEES NEED THEIR LEADERS MORE THAN EVER Help your leaders to excel. Thousands have used our weekly Lessons in Leadership to help their supervisors and managers remember how to hold onto top talent. The 52-week subscription is only $47, a bargain when you think about the savings to your organization in reduced turnover. Quantity discounts available by emailing Carol at carol@hermangroup.com. Order today at: http://www.hermangroup.com/store/subscription_all.html#3. Herman Trend Alerts are produced by the Herman Group, strategic business futurists, Certified Management Consultants, authors, and professional speakers. New subscribers are welcome. There is no charge for this public service. The Herman Trend Alert is received by over 30,000 subscribers in 78 countries, in addition to other websites and printed magazines. Do you enjoy receiving this weekly e-mail update? Contact us about our co-branded Trend Alert service. Click here to sign up for the Herman Trend Alert. Subscribe or Unsubscribe to weekly Herman Trend Alert View this week's Herman Trend Alert Archived Weekly Herman Trend Alerts

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