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As "500 year" floods become nearly annual events, the founder of the nonprofit Disaster Accountability Project explains why staffing cuts at the federal level are so dangerous for states and local communities.
The employees affected work within FEMA’s Cadre of On-Call Response/Recovery Employees (CORE), a group hired on fixed-term, one- or multi-year contracts to support disaster response and recovery operations. This cohort effectively functions as a flexible staffing pool that can be scaled up or down as events unfold.
Thousands of employees whose contracts end this year will lose their jobs, FEMA managers said at personnel meetings this week. The cuts could hobble the nation's disaster agency.
As communities across the nation brace for another year of hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and extreme heat, the nation’s disaster-response system needs clarity, not suspense.
MADISON – After historic flooding in the Milwaukee area, Gov. Tony Evers' administration is assessing the extent of damage − a process that could qualify area residents for federal disaster aid. Milwaukee and other parts of Wisconsin were hit with ...
A federal judge in Massachusetts on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to restore billions of dollars in canceled FEMA disaster mitigation funding, siding with 22 states and the District of Columbia that sued over the canceled grants this summer.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced Monday it has launched a National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) call center pilot program to serve and support policyholders with the servicing of their claims. “Flood insurance claims can be ...
(CNN) — The Trump administration is abruptly cutting dozens of staff who are at the forefront of disaster response and recovery at the Federal Emergency Management Agency this week, according to internal emails obtained by CNN and sources familiar ...
(CNN) — The Trump administration is abruptly cutting dozens of staff who are at the forefront of disaster response and recovery at the Federal Emergency Management Agency this week, according to internal emails obtained by CNN and sources familiar with ...