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Stratifying Disaster: State Aid, Institutional Processes, and Inequality in American Communities.

Disaster aid is an increasingly costly form of social spending and an often-overlooked way that welfare states manage new forms of risk related to climate change. In this article, I argue that disaster aid programs engender racial and socioeconomic inequalities through a process of assistance access...

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Published in:Social Forces Vol. 102; no. 2; pp. 430 - 454
Main Author: Raker, Ethan J
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Dec2023
Subjects:
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
Disaster relief
Welfare state
Climate change
Homeowners
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