Posted on 08/19/2013 3:16:19 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Extreme Weather Hurts Low-Income People Most
National Journal Clare Foran 4 hours ago
Low-income communities are disproportionately affected by extreme weather, according to a report out Monday from the Center for American Progress that offers policy recommendations to shore up infrastructure and protect against future damages.
The report, titled "A Disaster in the Making: Addressing the Vulnerability of Low-Income Communities to Extreme Weather," states that neighborhoods where a majority of residents live at or below the poverty line are ill-prepared to deal with fallout from storms and other weather-related disasters. As a result, low-income communities are harder hit when extreme weather arises.
"While many describe storms and other extreme weather as 'social equalizers' that do not differentiate based on ethnicity, race, or class, the truth is that these events exacerbate our underlying economic inequities," writes Tracey Ross, the report's author and a senior policy analyst with the center's Poverty to Prosperity program.
Ross uses Superstorm Sandy to illustrate her point. The majority of New York City storm-surge victims were low-income renters, Ross writes, citing a statistic provided by the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. Residents of subsidized high-rise apartments were trapped inside their homes in large numbers during the storm, often because they had nowhere to go and no way to leave. In other cases, elderly or disabled individuals living at or below the poverty line were stranded inside high-rise towers when power outages left elevators out of service.
To prevent these outcomes in the future, the report offers a number of policy recommendations aimed at strengthening the resilience of low-income communities to extreme weather. The report suggests public housing authorities retrofit existing structures to guard against storm damage.
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Poor people are poor. Next.
Memo to students everywhere: it sucks being poor ... don’t choose it!
This must go into the category of “duh,” i.o.w. belaboring the obvious.
How much did this study cost, and are the taxpayers on the hook?
What about the fuzzy bunnies?
It’s Nature’s way of trying to optimize the gene pool.....it’s not our place to try to un-naturally change that.
It's our only hope...
Water is wet.
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Either way someone loses a trailer.
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Either way someone loses a trailer.
They have fur coats.
In a just society they'd be forced to give their fur coats to the poor.
World to end tomorrow: Women and minorities hardest hit.
Tornadoes don’t discriminate.
Hurricanes don’t discriminate.
Rain doesn’t discriminate.
Hail doesn’t discriminate.
Snow doesn’t discriminate.
No matter how many laws, regulations, policies the libs/progressives/leftists come up with.
This looks like a direct slap in the face to Mother Nature.
rain falls on the just as well as the unjust, nature is cruel, but fair...
Have no fears. The CIA is studying how to control the weather so the poor are not endangered, the middle class, wealthy, and conservatives, targets. Arizona fires not given federal aid.
http://www.businessinsider.com/cia-weather-control-with-geoengineering-2013-7
Another BS press release from another BS lefty/socialist/commie organization, disguised and presented as "official news" by the MSM. This group is big into the alternative energy movement. You know, the ones (like Solyndra) who take m/billions of taxpayer funds and then declare bankruptcy a year or two later.
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