"Between fiscal years 2001 and 2005, federal funding was reduced by approximately 44% for flood and hurricane protection projects overseen by the Army Corps of Engineers in New Orleans." populareducationblog.substack.com/p/the-failur...

The Failure of FEMA: Political and Fiscal Decisions Behind New Orleans’ Vulnerability to Hurricane Katrina 🧵

"Throughout the Bush Administration, a recurring pattern emerged: the federal government wrote blank checks for the war effort in the Middle East while domestic infrastructure projects were relegated to checking the couch cushions for loose change." populareducationblog.substack.com/p/the-failur...

According to the American Bankruptcy Institute, individual Chapter 7 bankruptcy filings have increased 15% during the first 9 months of 2025, compared to the same time period in 2024.

Late-Stage Capitalism: A system so efficient it convinces you your suffering is self-improvement

"Trump’s attempts at influencing the economic data produced by the US government are clearly authoritarian in intent, and a degradation of current practices in the US." developingeconomics.org/2025/10/15/t...

Art of the Deal!

"On the consumer side, monopoly control over platforms and interfaces allows a single firm to decide what products appear first, which content is amplified, or which services are accessible at all." jacobin.com/2025/10/algo...

🧵When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, 80% of the city flooded, trapping over 100,000 residents. But not everyone was equally affected.

"That law changed strict bright-line media ownership rules that prohibited acquisitions of local stations by chains and moved them to a discretionary system where regulators could approve such acquisitions" www.levernews.com/the-origins-...

So far in our series on Hurricane Katrina, we’ve explored how the storm wasn’t just a natural disaster — it revealed decades of inequality, government neglect, and opportunistic profiteering. populareducationblog.substack.com/p/hurricane-...

"Race, poverty, and limited access to automobiles were key factors that left Black residents disproportionately vulnerable, especially in low-lying neighborhoods where evacuation was nearly impossible." populareducationblog.substack.com/p/demographi...

"New Orleans was constructed and expanded in accordance with economic initiatives that were designed to increase trade and industrial production at the expense of environmental degradation." populareducationblog.substack.com/p/new-orlean...

"Despite advanced knowledge of New Orleans susceptibility to a potential major Hurricane, decades of disinvestment and neglect resulted in an unprepared bureaucracy incapable of delivering humanitarian aid in the moment of crisis." populareducationblog.substack.com/p/hurricane-...