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Article: ESSAYS ABOUT HURRICANE KATRINA BY WYNTON MARSALIS, OTHERS APPEAR IN NEW BOOK
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- January 10, 2006
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The University of California at Santa Cruz issued the following press release:
The weak federal emergency response to Hurricane Katrina fits a pattern of reduced federal government responsibility for public well-being, according to the editor of a new collection of essays about Katrina.
John Brown Childs, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and editor of the new book Hurricane Katrina: Response and Responsibilities (Santa Cruz, CA: New Pacific Press, 2005), writes that Katrina exposed the consequences of the radical and systematic dismantling of the federal safety net that began with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980.
Childs' chapter, "From New Deal to ...