Hunger in America....By County. Zip Codes from COVID-19 Pandemic.

Rudy, Thanks.

CDS

March 27 at 12:34 PM  · From a posting by Dan Silverstein:

I was listening to a webinar this morning, hosted by students and advocates for addressing hunger on college campuses. Their work extends to communities which experience food insecurity. 

They displayed a map of the 3,300 counties that make up the U.S. and made the point that only 68 counties, on average, are populated with Americans who make a living wage. The rest, which means pretty much the entire rest of the U.S. is dominated by people who cannot afford their basic needs. 
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Rudy Arredondo

President/CEO/Founder

Latino Farmers & Ranchers International, Inc.

1231-B Good Hope Road, S. E.

Washington, DC 20020

[IRDR Workshop] New Technology vs Disaster Risk Reduction: Opportunities and Emerging Risks

A Framework for Global Science in support of Risk Informed Sustainable Development and Planetary Health 

(ISC-UNDRR-IRDR, 2021, hereafter as the Research Framework) identified nine research priorities for cooperation. 

To advance the implementation of the Research Framework, IRDR will organize a series of workshops in 2023 to further discuss the implications of priority setting and the lines of actions for DRR community. 

This workshop, scheduled on 4 May, UTC8:00-9:30,  will focus on Priority 5 “Harness technologies, data and knowledge for risk reduction”. For detailed information and participation in this workshop: https://www.irdrinternational.org/news/943 

Please feel free to contact us @ fang.lian@irdrinternational.org if you have any questions

Best regards

Fang

Fang Lian (Ms.)

Science Officer

Integrated Research on Disaster Risk|IPO

c/o AIR/Chinese Academy of Science (CAS),

Room B713, No 9 Dengzhuangnan Rd.,

Haidian District, Beijing, China 100094

Webinar - Beyond COVID19: Health security preparedness and risk management for improved resilience

Please join this second webinar of the Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) series Building Resilient Urban Systems (in English with simultaneous French & Spanish interpretation)

To register, please click here           Or scan this QR code:

The webinar, led by the World Health Organization (WHO) in partnership with the United Nations Office of Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), will focus on the fact that cities are central to building health security preparedness and resilience. Municipalities can learn from the systematic impact of the COVID19 pandemic, and the array of complex risks often experienced during disasters and health emergencies. It is critical to integrate risk management and health security preparedness considerations into city planning and financing processes, allowing stakeholders to collaborate to reduce these risks. This webinar will explore building health security preparedness and resilience through first-hand experiences and expert analysis.

This Building Resilient Urban Systems webinar series is linked to the High-Level Meeting of the Midterm Review of the Sendai Framework taking place this month at the UN General Assembly. The Meeting is set to highlight health security preparedness as an important element of DRR at the urban and sub-national level.

The MCR2030 global partnership has mobilized more than 1,520 local governments, representing over 482 million people in 76 countries and territories. It is committed to strengthening disaster and climate resilience at the sub-national level. Twenty-one of these municipalities are recognized as Resilience Hubs – global leaders in disaster risk reduction. The initiative has also mobilized national governments, international organizations, private sector enterprises, academic organizations, and NGOs. MCR2030 is a ‘who’s who’ of partners with unmatched expertise and experience of supporting greater urban resilience.

 

The story of how Skid Row came to be. Los Angeles and other cities.

 

The 15 Richest Black Families in the USA 2023.

 

15 wealthiest black families in America in 2023. The United States is considered the land of opportunity for millions around the world, the idea that no matter who you are, what color your skin is, or what religion you practice, anyone can achieve " the American dream" has traveled all over the world. However, internally this might be a whole other story. In America, the average black family is only one-tenth as wealthy as the average white family. Black Americans controlled zero point 5 percent of the nation's wealth in 18 63. For nearly the same fraction of the whole population, it is a little over 1.5 percent today. The presumption of progress following the abolition of slavery and the victories of civil rights has largely obscured the root of that stalemate. But for every advancement made by black Americans, those in positions of authority devised new forms of discrimination that were largely hidden from view and repeatedly sabotaged the economic promise of freedom.

Of the 724 billionaires in the United States, only 7 seven are black.

This huge discrepancy perfectly exemplifies the scale of income inequality in the United States.

Today we’re going to be breaking down the 15 wealthiest black families in the United States and of course as you’d expect the power of “celebrity” is a great forte for wealth generation in black America.