Author: United States. Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration
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Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 10
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The Need for Federal Aid in Puerto Rico
Author: United States. Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration
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Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 10
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Publisher:
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Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 10
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Federal Aid to Puerto Rico
Author: Richard B. Cappalli
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Category : Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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Category : Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
To Assist in Relieving Economic Distress in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands: Hearings, with appendix, Oct. 1-19, 1943
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Insular Affairs
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Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Federal Aid to Slum Clearance in Puerto Rico, 1950-1956
Author: Joseph Meyer Heikoff
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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The Impact of Federal Budget Cuts on Puerto Rican Human Service Institutions
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Category : Federal aid to public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Category : Federal aid to public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The Needs of Children of Pureto Rico and the Responsibility of the Federal Government Toward the Children of Puerto Rico
Author: United States. Interdepartmental Committee on Children and Youth
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Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Emerging Risks in the 21st Century An Agenda for Action
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9789264101227
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This book explores the implications of newly developing risks such as hugely damaging hurricanes, new diseases, terrorist attacks, and disruptions to critical infrastructures.
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9789264101227
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This book explores the implications of newly developing risks such as hugely damaging hurricanes, new diseases, terrorist attacks, and disruptions to critical infrastructures.
Katrina
Author: Andy Horowitz
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067497171X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The definitive history of Katrina: an epic of citymaking, revealing how engineers and oil executives, politicians and musicians, and neighbors black and white built New Orleans, then watched it sink under the weight of their competing ambitions. Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans on August 29, 2005, but the decisions that caused the disaster extend across the twentieth century. After the city weathered a major hurricane in 1915, its Sewerage and Water Board believed that developers could safely build housing away from the high ground near the Mississippi. And so New Orleans grew in lowlands that relied on significant government subsidies to stay dry. When the flawed levee system surrounding the city and its suburbs failed, these were the neighborhoods that were devastated. The homes that flooded belonged to Louisianans black and white, rich and poor. Katrina’s flood washed over the twentieth-century city. The flood line tells one important story about Katrina, but it is not the only story that matters. Andy Horowitz investigates the response to the flood, when policymakers reapportioned the challenges the water posed, making it easier for white New Orleanians to return home than it was for African Americans. And he explores how the profits and liabilities created by Louisiana’s oil industry have been distributed unevenly among the state’s citizens for a century, prompting both dreams of abundance—and a catastrophic land loss crisis that continues today. Laying bare the relationship between structural inequality and physical infrastructure—a relationship that has shaped all American cities—Katrina offers a chilling glimpse of the future disasters we are already creating.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067497171X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The definitive history of Katrina: an epic of citymaking, revealing how engineers and oil executives, politicians and musicians, and neighbors black and white built New Orleans, then watched it sink under the weight of their competing ambitions. Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans on August 29, 2005, but the decisions that caused the disaster extend across the twentieth century. After the city weathered a major hurricane in 1915, its Sewerage and Water Board believed that developers could safely build housing away from the high ground near the Mississippi. And so New Orleans grew in lowlands that relied on significant government subsidies to stay dry. When the flawed levee system surrounding the city and its suburbs failed, these were the neighborhoods that were devastated. The homes that flooded belonged to Louisianans black and white, rich and poor. Katrina’s flood washed over the twentieth-century city. The flood line tells one important story about Katrina, but it is not the only story that matters. Andy Horowitz investigates the response to the flood, when policymakers reapportioned the challenges the water posed, making it easier for white New Orleanians to return home than it was for African Americans. And he explores how the profits and liabilities created by Louisiana’s oil industry have been distributed unevenly among the state’s citizens for a century, prompting both dreams of abundance—and a catastrophic land loss crisis that continues today. Laying bare the relationship between structural inequality and physical infrastructure—a relationship that has shaped all American cities—Katrina offers a chilling glimpse of the future disasters we are already creating.
Food Assistance
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
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Category : Food relief
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Publisher:
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Category : Food relief
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Crs Report for Congress
Author: Congressional Research Service: The Libr
Publisher: BiblioGov
ISBN: 9781293249819
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has a unique history as a part of the United States. United States suzerainty over Puerto Rico originated with the acquisition of the islands in 1898 after the conclusion of the Spanish-American War. For decades, the federal government administered government operations in Puerto Rico through military liaisons or civilian officials appointed by the President. Legislation enacted by Congress in 1950 (P.L. 81-600) and in 1952 (P.L. 82-447) granted Puerto Rico authority to establish a republican form of local government through a constitution approved by the citizens of Puerto Rico and the Congress in 1952. Puerto Rico remains subject to congressional jurisdiction under the Territorial Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Under this authority, Congress has passed legislation that governs elements of Puerto Rico's relationship to the United States. For example, residents of Puerto Rico hold U.S. citizenship, serve in the military, are represented in the House of Representatives by a Resident Commissioner elected to a four-year term who does not have privileges to vote on the floor of the House, are subject to federal laws and are beneficiaries of federal aid as approved by Congress, do not vote in national elections, and pay no federal income ...
Publisher: BiblioGov
ISBN: 9781293249819
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has a unique history as a part of the United States. United States suzerainty over Puerto Rico originated with the acquisition of the islands in 1898 after the conclusion of the Spanish-American War. For decades, the federal government administered government operations in Puerto Rico through military liaisons or civilian officials appointed by the President. Legislation enacted by Congress in 1950 (P.L. 81-600) and in 1952 (P.L. 82-447) granted Puerto Rico authority to establish a republican form of local government through a constitution approved by the citizens of Puerto Rico and the Congress in 1952. Puerto Rico remains subject to congressional jurisdiction under the Territorial Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Under this authority, Congress has passed legislation that governs elements of Puerto Rico's relationship to the United States. For example, residents of Puerto Rico hold U.S. citizenship, serve in the military, are represented in the House of Representatives by a Resident Commissioner elected to a four-year term who does not have privileges to vote on the floor of the House, are subject to federal laws and are beneficiaries of federal aid as approved by Congress, do not vote in national elections, and pay no federal income ...