Income Inequality & Acknowledgment
Action: Listen to our podcast series on preparedness to learn more about how you can prepare and help relieve some of the stress on our emergency systems during a disaster. Consider pursuing preparedness and response training like First Aid and CPR. And remember, not everyone has the capacity to plan and supply beforehand, so find a local food bank to use or donate to depending on your circumstances, and help out our undocumented (1, 2), indigenous (1, 2), and trans friends through mutual aid programs as they face this virus with fewer resources and less government support than should be the case.
Educate: Research how preparedness and socioeconomic status interact and how it is discussed so that your organization or community can be better prepared to address those things often overlooked in emergency planning. Learn about some of the solutions to this issue being discussed by leading experts. And check out our Poverty & Preparedness Infographic from the week of May 25, 2020.
Source Material: Click through the links to the source material we used to research this week – take a deep dive into what was most interesting to you!
- Man-made natural disasters from Aljazeera.com
- Natural Disasters, Human Rights, and the Role of National Human Rights Institutions from Brookings
- Environment, Disaster, and Race After Katrina from RP&E Journal
- Greater Impact: How Disasters Affect People of Low Socioeconomic Status from SAMHSA
- The Disposable Class: Ensuring Poverty Consciousness in Natural Disaster Preparedness from DePaul Journal for Social Justice
- Improving the Disaster Recovery of Low-Income Families from Urban Institute
- When Disaster Strikes: Promising Practices from mdcinc.org
- What Drives the Cycle of Poverty? from Stand Together Foundation
- Fixing America’s Broken Disaster Housing Recovery System from the National Low Income Housing Coalition
- A Disaster in the Making: Addressing the Vulnerability of Low-Income Communities to Extreme Weather from the Center For American Progress
- Get prepared: Discourse for the privileged? from the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
