Dan Miller
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"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."
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The Failure of FEMA: The Political and Fiscal Choices Behind Katrina’s Devastation
A critical examination of federal policy and fiscal decisions shaping FEMA’s readiness before Katrina
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The Failure of FEMA: Political and Fiscal Decisions Behind New Orleans’ Vulnerability to Hurricane Katrina 🧵
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"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."
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The Failure of FEMA: The Political and Fiscal Choices Behind Katrina’s Devastation
A critical examination of federal policy and fiscal decisions shaping FEMA’s readiness before Katrina
https://populareducationblog.substack.com/p/the-failure-of-fema-the-political
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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.
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Late-Stage Capitalism: A system so efficient it convinces you your suffering is self-improvement
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"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."
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The Data War Comes Home
The Trump administration’s ongoing attempts at manipulating US government economic data echoes controversies that have existed in the realm of development data for decades. These controversies high…
https://developingeconomics.org/2025/10/15/the-data-war-comes-home/
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Art of the Deal!
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"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."
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The Algorithms That Dictate Our Lives Are Not Neutral
Algorithms are not apolitical tools that simply improve efficiency in online transactions or workplace coordination. They are instruments of control and should be regulated like other tools of control...
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/algorithms-labor-management-abuses-regulation
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đź§µWhen Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, 80% of the city flooded, trapping over 100,000 residents. But not everyone was equally affected.
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"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"
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The Origins Of Kimmelgate
A 1996 law from a Democratic president created Donald Trump’s censorship machine by consolidating media, broadband, and tech firms. We can stop it.
https://www.levernews.com/the-origins-of-kimmelgate/
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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.
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Hurricane Katrina at 20: What The Storm Revealed About America
An introduction to our series on Hurricane Katrina that will explore how racial inequality, environmental neglect, and neoliberal policies shaped the disaster and its aftermath in New Orleans.
https://populareducationblog.substack.com/p/hurricane-katrina-at-20-what-the
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"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."
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Demographic Disparities: Victims of Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina demonstrated that structural inequalities, rather than nature alone, dictated vulnerability, evacuation, and post-storm recovery
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"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."
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New Orleans: Geography, Growth, & Environmental Risk
The growth of New Orleans reveals how strategic geography encouraged expansion despite inherent environmental risks.
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"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."
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Hurricane Katrina at 20: What The Storm Revealed About America
An introduction to our series on Hurricane Katrina that will explore how racial inequality, environmental neglect, and neoliberal policies shaped the disaster and its aftermath in New Orleans.
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