Katrina +5

A recent Brookings Institute report has some pretty positive things to say about New Orleans.

• "Since 2005, New Orleanians have arguably undertaken more major reforms simultaneously than any other modern American city,''
• "The metro area had recovered more than 90 percent of its population and 85 percent of its jobs as of June,"
• For the first time since the mid-1980s, average wages here caught up to the national average.

More on the report and other New Orleans information from Brookings here.