Tag: fema

  • The Mitigation Funding Drought

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    Bridget Good
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    This week, seven major disaster declarations were approved for disasters that recently struck US communities. The approval means those impacted communities have been awarded federal resources and funding for recovery efforts. That’s great news. The bad news is, according to OPB, “None of the approvals made this week includes hazard mitigation funding, a once-typical add-on…

  • You Can’t Shrink Your Way to Resilience

    You Can’t Shrink Your Way to Resilience

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    Bridget Good
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    On New Year’s Eve, FEMA’s acting chief, Karen Evans, instructed that roughly 50 of the agency’s Cadre of On-Call Response and Recovery (CORE) teams would not have their contracts renewed—letting them go just days before they were scheduled to finish their assignments. FEMA currently employs over 8,000 CORE staff—about 40% of its workforce—who are typically…