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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

This was in 2010, shortly after Haiti had been prostrated by a magnitude 7 earthquake. The 2010 earthquake occurred after yet another period of instability, which the United Nations Peacekeeping mission (MINUSTAH) had striven to bring to an end. Consider, for example, the role of the Internet and social media.

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A Slice of the Trump Budget’s Shrunken Pie for the Needs of Low-Income People

Poverty & Policy

And we’ve all seen and/or heard news reports, op-eds, social media takes and the like. The Coalition on Human Needs chose 185 such programs and tracked their funding from 2010, the year before Congress passed the Budget Control Act, through the budget the federal government’s operating under now.