As warming fuels disasters, relief often favors white people

As warming fuels disasters, relief often favors white people

Counties with a significant share of Black, Hispanic or Native American residents often receive less money from FEMA than mostly white counties, even when suffering the same amount of damage, according to a study published in 2019 by Simone Domingue, then a researcher at CU Boulder, who analyzed FEMA grants to 1,621 counties from 2012 through 2015.

Published at Mon, 07 Jun 2021 21:20:40 +0000