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Government has gotten smarter at preventing and recovering from disasters. we have data that shows before the storm, the high school graduation rate was 54%. today it's up to 73%. [ applause ] before the storm, college enrollment was 37%. today it's almost 60%. we still have a long way to go, but that is real progress. new orleans is coming back better and stronger. >> new orleans is coming back better and stronger, the president says. but he also went out of his way to say basically it's coming back up evenly too. joining us now is mark morial. he's president and ceo of the national urban lea...

League put out a report called "the state of black new orleans" which documents the uneven nature of the recovery in new orleans since the storm. mr. morial, it's great to see you. thanks for being here with us. >> thanks, rachel. thanks for having me and i really appreciate listening to those clips from ten years ago. >> yeah. i feel like -- i'm 42 now, i was 32 then. it's not like i was so young then that i can't remember it, but i was newly shocked, newly very emotional not just about the toll but about the governmental failure that happened at that time. i wonder if you feel like that's be...

Excited when there are disasters, because he gets restless if everything is just quiet. but we under -- under his leadership, we've revamped fema into a stronger, more efficient agency. in fact the whole federal government has gotten smarter at preventing and recovering from disasters. we have data that shows before the storm, the high school graduation rate was 54%. today it's up to 73%. [ applause ] before the storm, college enrollment was 37%. today it's almost 60%. we still have a long way to go, but that is real progress. new orleans is coming back better and stronger. >> new orleans is c...

Dallas, or the green dot plan, that suggested that many of these historic african-american neighborhoods should not come back, that they should be turned into lagoons. there was a public uprising against that plan, but the effect it had is that it delayed, if you will, the comeback of a whole host of neighborhoods, both african-american middle class, working class and even some neighborhoods that were mixed and not necessarily african-american. secondly, the state's primary compensation program, the road home program, in fact was a program that was not evenly, fairly or equitably administered....