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Poll shows New Orleans not forgotten

NEW ORLE4ANS, La., Aug. 9 (UPI) -- A national poll indicates the majority of U.S. residents have not forgotten New Orleans' plight 11 months after being battered by Hurricane Katrina.

The non-profit Kaiser Family Foundation poll of 1,217 people found 20 percent said they still think about the Aug. 29 storm and flooding disaster "very often" while another 40 percent said it's on their minds "somewhat often."

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More important, 70 percent said people affected by Hurricane Katrina still had not gotten the help they need, the New Orleans Times Picayune reported.

Despite billions of dollars in financial assistance sent to the disaster zone, 56 percent said the federal government hasn't done enough to help state and local governments.

U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal, R-La., whose district was battered by the storm, said he's concerned Katrina will become stale news.

"What I worry about is it could become a self-fulfilling prophesy," Jindal said. "If Congress, the national media and the (Bush) administration think Americans aren't interested, they will move on to something else."

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