Fact of the Week: Households Living in Poverty Have Significantly Less Access to a Vehicle for Disaster Evacuation

The U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Appropriations held a hearing, “Fiscal Year 2025 Request for the Federal Emergency Management Agency,” on April 16. The primary witness was FEMA…

Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) took to the floor of the U.S. Senate on April 10 to call for additional federal long-term disaster recovery funding for the island of Maui, which was struck by…

Congressional and National Updates Representatives Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) and Mike Thompson (D-CA) introduced the “Disaster Resiliency and Coverage Act of 2024” in the U.S. House of Representatives on…