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...Rose worked in midtown Manhattan last summer with the investment bank Bear Stearns in an attempt to get some real-world experience for his economics concentration. It was his first time in New York City, and Rose says he loved it. With the September 11th terror attacks, he also vividly remembers the weeks before the world changed...
Responding to widespread criticism that funds meant for victims of September 11th attacks were being diverted to unrelated causes, Red Cross officials announced Wednesday that all donations sent to the organization?s Liberty Fund will be given directly to families affected by the attacks. And in an effort to streamline the now infamously convoluted process of asking for and getting assistance, the Red Cross will also create a database to help coordinate the efforts of all relief organizations...
...Donors "have made very clear" all money should go to attack victims, Red Cross chairman David McLaughlin told reporters. "We are making a course correction. Fully 100 percent of the $500 million Liberty Fund will be dedicated to those affected by the September 11th attacks. None will be held back for future events." The Red Cross, McLaughlin says, pledges to provide up to a full year of living expenses for all families of victims...
...deeply regret that our actions over the past weeks have not been as sharply focused as they should have been." Decker predicts that by the end of the year, the Red Cross will have distributed more than $275 million overall distributed to people affected by the events of September 11th...
...This area, just five miles south of Kennedy airport, is still struggling with losses from the September 11th attacks; a primarily Irish-American enclave, Belle Harbor lost dozens of residents during the WTC collapse and the subsequent relief efforts. One local church alone has held nearly a dozen funerals in recent weeks...