America’s decades-old system for disaster payments prioritizes expensive recoveries over prudent risk reduction. With climate disasters becoming more severe and frequent, it’s time for a different approach. Carolyn Kousky, Karina French, Carlos Martín, and Manann Donoghoe share ways to distribute the costs of disaster recovery and mitigation more effectively across sectors.
Thanks to historic sums of pandemic relief aid through the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER), states and districts have been flush with cash in the last few years. However, with the ESSER ending by this time next year, schools are in store for financial chaos. Marguerite Roza and Katherine Silberstein explain the looming problem.
This year marks the halfway point for achieving the U.N. sustainable development goals (SDGs). With this in mind, the U.S. National Security Council requested all the nation’s development assistance agencies to show a deliberate link to the SDGs. Anthony F. Pipa and George Ingram outline how agencies are responding and share a strategy for the United States to exert better leadership on the SDGs.
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