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Lauren Underwood: “Under our current system, disaster recovery can actually make inequities worse than they were before a natural disaster.”

On the recordMarch 27, 2023
Under our current system, disaster recovery can actually make inequities worse than they were before a natural disaster.
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Lauren Underwood
Democratic · Illinois

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Highlighting systemic inequities in disaster recovery efforts.

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