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Class and Crisis: Socioeconomic Status and the Ethics of Individual Experience

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Carole Jurkiewicz

Weve all heard the arguments post-Katrina and perhaps weve made the remarks ourselves: Why cant these people just pull themselves up by their bootstraps? They just sit and wait for government handouts. Okay, so it was bad, but w... More »

From Flower to Garden: Katrina Electricity and Emergency Management

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Lenneal Henderson

Hurricane Katrina taught federal, state, and local public managers extensive lessons about the criticality of electricity reliability in a disaster. In the report, The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned, the ... More »