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Re:After a $14B Upgrade, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking by mikeash on Thursday April 18, 2019 @10:14PM (#19696540)
Whatever you want to call a metro area of over a million people with a GDP approaching $80 billion, a few hundred million to protect it seems cheap.
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Re:After a $14B Upgrade, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking by thanatos_dem on Friday April 19, 2019 @04:48PM (#19702880)
Where’s the $80B number coming from?

From the sources I found (from 2017) GDP per capita is $52,536 (from Open Data Network), and population is 393,292 (US Census Bureau), giving a GDP of right around $20B.

We’ve already spent 14 on it, and will continue to need to spend indefinitely, so the numbers really aren’t great.

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Re:After a $14B Upgrade, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking by mikeash on Friday April 19, 2019 @04:59PM (#19702954)
Metro area, not just the city proper. https://www.frbatlanta.org/economy-matters/2015/08/20/new-or...
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