Category Archives: Demographics and Social Vulnerability

According to the IMF, the European Union has the largest GDP, worth $15.8 trillion, followed by the United States with $15 trillion, China with $11.3 trillion, and India now narrowly ahead of Japan, with $4.458 trillion against $4.44 trillion. In … Continue reading →

WE often here discuss critical infrastructure, its creation, operation, protection, and impacts. We seldom hear as much about investments in the people of any given nation-state and the long term impact of doing that investment or not doing it. My … Continue reading →

The real history of the last 4 decades of the growth in federal disaster relief is the cultural conflict between the public works mentality that has dominated FEMA and the federal relief agencies and the reality of the division of … Continue reading →

More on prior post! Political divisions of Mexico From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “States of Mexico” redirects here. Not to be confused with the state-type political division of Mexico named Mexico, see State of Mexico. For the various countries named … Continue reading →

From a recent Washington Times article: “The pool from which the military recruits is already getting smaller. In 1973, the year the draft ended and the all-volunteer force arose, 90 percent of males, ages 17 through 24, qualified based on … Continue reading →

WAPO ran an article on women who had made a difference!  Not quite sure of their criteria but I think Eleanor Roosevelt and Jane Addams should have been on the list!  Frances Perkins previously posted on here was on the … Continue reading →

The 2010 Census will take years to process!   In the meantime go to: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/2011-08-10-census-20-years-change_n.htm

From Wikipedia: Demographics of the United States From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It has been suggested that People of the United States be merged into this article or section. (Discuss) The 2010 U.S. Census reported 308,745,538 residents,[1] making the United … Continue reading →

Today’s Sunday NY TIMEs has some great graphics in the WEEK IN REVIEW section captioned as follows: Where to Live to Avoid a Natural Disaster Perhaps the municipal bond salesmen and women should look closely and wondering if other correlations … Continue reading →

Disclosure:  I became an employee of the Department of Housing and Urban Development on July 1st, 1974 and departed to join FEMA on September 10th, 1979! During those years I worked on FIA issues [Federal Insurance Adminstration], FDAA issues [Federal … Continue reading →