Janet Babin checks in from the next stop on her road trip from Cape May to Montauk. Also, WNYC's Robert Lewis discusses his reporting on what companies have gotten lucrative contracts post-Sandy -- and the economics of a disaster.
Janet Babin checks in from the next stop on her road trip from Cape May to Montauk. Also, WNYC's Robert Lewis discusses his reporting on what companies have gotten lucrative contracts post-Sandy -- and the economics of a disaster.
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Seems like those in the jacket logo business should be cleaning up. You go to a Sandy help center -FEMA, rapid repair, SBA - all have there color coordinated logo clothing. No one can ever provide accurate or useful information - but they look uniform.
jgarbuz, you need higher standards. (And the term is "enslaved labor".)
Yup. These reverse carpetbaggers are probably non-union southern labor. Did anyone expect anything else?
Oh well, better than slave labor, right Fuva?
Disaster, Inc: How about the news media making money of disasters like Sandy?
Have you been to the poor end of the Rockaways, around Beach 90? That is such a depressed area in the "best" of times. I have been volunteering at a few centers in that area. I can tell you that the poor minorities who live in these projects had very little before Sandy and have even less now that some of the businesses they had worked in closed down. This area needs help with jobs, jobs, jobs and job training. By the way, the food that is given out on a daily basis does not include any fresh fruit and vegetables. Lots of tuna, beef stew, etc. But handing out food and clothing on a daily basis does not give people jobs or promote self-reliance. Where is the real help? This is an opportunity to right this wrong.
Construction carpetbaggers!
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