Word: reliefer
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...week after lawmakers rushed back to Washington to approve $10 billion for hurricane-relief efforts, nearly all that money had been spent, and the White House got Congress to shell out $52 billion more. For those who are keeping tabs...
...trailers have been purchased. The government, which has scrapped plans to give $2,000 debit cards to thousands of hurricane victims, is capping total aid per household at $26,000, and almost all the rest of the money will go to federal agencies to work on the relief effort. --By Perry Bacon...
...tortured, drawn-out affair. Precisely one week after George W. Bush publicly commended FEMA's Michael Brown for "doing a heck of a job," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff sent the deer-in-headlights leader back to Washington and put Coast Guard Vice Admiral Thad Allen in charge of relief efforts...
While Harvard’s population was relatively untouched by the storm, students at Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge saw a routine hurricane evacuation become one of the most extensive relief operations in the country...
They waited, as did the others: LSU student volunteers waited to deliver a bottle of water or pass out styrofoam boxes of jambalaya, but had little chance in a chaotic and loosely run relief operation. Refugees waited for answers to simple questions. Where was a phone? Did the mother have her hypertension medication? Where would the family sleep tonight...