The Advocate’s Mark Ballard reports that an estimated 150,000 Louisianans might be eligible for for help through D-SNAP: Department of Agriculture relaxes the rules after federally declared disasters so that people who experienced a temporary economic setback will still have enough resources to buy food. People in southeast Louisiana who’ve been affected by Hurricane Ida may be eligible for federal food assistance, even if they normally make too much money to qualify for benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Fix the systems that are structurally broken.” But when you force people to live in a constant state of resilience, it’s just oppression. “Yes, we’re beautiful and resourceful people. “We don’t want to be resilient forever,” she said. “One of the things that we get really frustrated about, in terms of the narrative, is people saying, ’Ugh, Louisiana is so resilient,” said Ashley Shelton of the Power Coalition for Equality and Justice, a statewide nonprofit that provides resources and encourages civic participation in underserved communities of color. In Louisiana, where 17 storms that caused at least $1 billion in damage have hit since 2000, nonprofits see some of the most dire need and the starkest divide along socioeconomics lines. Aaron Morrison of the Associated Press spoke with grassroots leaders in New Orleans about the ways structural racism and economic inequality has made recovery particularly hard for low-income, Black and brown communities. But recovering from a major storm – on the heels of a global pandemic – is much harder for people and communities that had the least to start with. The destructive power of a major hurricane does not discriminate between rich and poor, white and Black.
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