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Natural hazard research working paper volume 107
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Focuses on major terrorist events in the past two decades to review how the essential emergency management (EM) infrastructure changed.
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Natural hazard research working paper volume 108
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
For the emergency management community, the incredible events of September 11, 2001, and their many outcomes have led to changes so extensive they are hard to document. A gross indication of the impacts of these changes is evidenced simply by counting the important legislative and bureaucratic changes that have occurred since September 11, 2001. Along with new threats have come new resources, and those resources have new requirements connected to...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
The Great Recession of 2007 wreaked enormous economic damage throughout the nation. Not only were employment losses the greatest since the 1930s but other aspects of labor market activity, such as labor force participation, declined to levels not seen since at least the late 1970s. The surge in unemployment and ensuing slow recovery in hiring placed tremendous strain on many state unemployment insurance trust funds. As a result, more than 30 state...