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1. "Worried about tourism"

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Fri Aug 15, 2014, 01:36 AM

Aug 2014

How much does a city like New Orleans spend on tourism marketing? How about taking a fraction of that and providing services to house and help these people back into normal society instead?

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