http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/24/starting-over-dept-of-social-studies-malcolm-gladwell

Gladwell, Malcolm "Starting Over" The New Yorker , 2015

Malcolm Gladwell explores the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina of 2006 on the residents of the neighborhood in New Orleans, where many poor African Americans resided it in, and how the natural disaster may of had more beneficial effects than expected on the population. Gladwell has previously done work on subjects involving people and focus on individuals that impacted others. A common statistic finds many Africans do not move homes unless there is a cause of concern, such as wiring or change in rent, and not for reasons including better schooling or neighborhoods. As a result, usually they will stay in a poor neighborhood and impact their prospects for their children, at about 48 percent. Hurricane Katrina however, forced many these families to move elsewhere, such as Houston, were their prospects improved substantially. While the article takes a positive spin on the effects of Katrina, there is a large usage of pathos and lesser focus on the logos and the opposite argument that lives have not improved is not brought up or with any evidence backing it. Still, an argument of the crisis involving inter-generational mobility being a local problem is not without merits, that the neighborhood one grows up in can have more impact than other factors.