Word: unpreparedness
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Generally speaking, socially successful people have better access to limited resources, both economic and otherwise. Successfully competing for these social resources often requires education, mobility, flexibility, and time; unfortunately, all of these elements become much more inaccessible after the birth of a care-intensive child. Viewed through Darwin�...
But not all was rosy in any city that took in New Orleans residents, including Atlanta. "Public and private agencies were faced with a relief effort for which they were generally unprepared," says Appleseed Executive Director Linda Singer. In Atlanta, experienced Red Cross personnel had shipped out, leaving the agency...
But it's not just bureaucrats who are unprepared for calamity. Regular people are even less likely to plan ahead. In this month's TIME poll, about half of those surveyed said they had personally experienced a natural disaster or public emergency. But only 16% said they were "very well...
That ought to be very good news, but in a disturbing echo of the earliest days of the epidemic, many hospitals and other institutions are clearly unprepared for a sudden influx of a new population of HIV patients: middle-aged and even elderly people surviving with the disease into their...
He added that he was surprised that many respondents were still unprepared for a hurricane, one year after Katrina.