Manann
@manannan.bsky.social
Brookings Institution Center for Community Uplift | Researcher on climate and environmental justice | Geographer | Reformed economist
20 years on, the lesson from Hurricane Katrina is clear - social vulnerability amplifies disaster impacts. But current changes in disaster policy show we've failed to learn that lesson, edging us closer to a system with less federal oversight or support.
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What We Learned from Hurricane Katrina, 20 Years Later
Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, cities should look to New Orleans for how to build resilience to disasters.
time.com
August 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
20 years on, the lesson from Hurricane Katrina is clear - social vulnerability amplifies disaster impacts. But current changes in disaster policy show we've failed to learn that lesson, edging us closer to a system with less federal oversight or support.
time.com/7312821/lear...
time.com/7312821/lear...
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This week our @brookings.edu team released a report on how public data fails Tribes and Native American people.
It comes as the federal government works to undermine confidence in public data.
Here’s a thread on why you should care about high-quality data, and how to improve it for Native people 👇
It comes as the federal government works to undermine confidence in public data.
Here’s a thread on why you should care about high-quality data, and how to improve it for Native people 👇
Good data, stronger Tribes | Brookings
This analysis aims to identify the role that regional organizations can play in solving data challenges that exist for Native nations and Native American people.
www.brookings.edu
August 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
This week our @brookings.edu team released a report on how public data fails Tribes and Native American people.
It comes as the federal government works to undermine confidence in public data.
Here’s a thread on why you should care about high-quality data, and how to improve it for Native people 👇
It comes as the federal government works to undermine confidence in public data.
Here’s a thread on why you should care about high-quality data, and how to improve it for Native people 👇
New Orleans has made strides since Hurricae Katrina, but there's more policy change still needed to build communities ready for extreme events and resilient to other types of shocks.
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How resilient is New Orleans today?
The Current · Episode
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August 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
New Orleans has made strides since Hurricae Katrina, but there's more policy change still needed to build communities ready for extreme events and resilient to other types of shocks.
open.spotify.com/episode/7BCv...
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Was happy to speak with Rebecca Hersher at @npr.org about reforms to #FEMA that have been circling. FEMA was not perfect but it was heading in the right direction. Now it's being pushed off a cliff.
#FEMA has a long history of failing to help the most vulnerable disaster survivors. Under the Biden administration, the agency was starting to fix those problems. Now, those reforms are in jeopardy. www.npr.org/2025/06/05/n...
FEMA was starting to fix long-standing problems. Then came the Trump administration
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has a long history of failing to help those who need assistance the most after disasters. Biden-era changes meant to fix some of those problems now face an unce...
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June 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Interested in cultural geography? Check out my new academic pub.
Crisis or crisis ordinary? An autoethnographic exploration of the affective atmospheres of precarity during Australia’s COVID-19 first wave www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Crisis or crisis ordinary? An autoethnographic exploration of the affective atmospheres of precarity during Australia’s COVID-19 first wave www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Crisis or crisis ordinary? An autoethnographic exploration of the affective atmospheres of precarity during Australia’s COVID-19 first wave
COVID-19, as it unfolded across Australia, overlayed pre-existing relationships of precarity, particularly in the home and work. While COVID-19 presents as a national atmosphere of crisis, for many...
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June 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Interested in cultural geography? Check out my new academic pub.
Crisis or crisis ordinary? An autoethnographic exploration of the affective atmospheres of precarity during Australia’s COVID-19 first wave www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Crisis or crisis ordinary? An autoethnographic exploration of the affective atmospheres of precarity during Australia’s COVID-19 first wave www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
If the share of Latino or Hispanic-owned employer businesses equaled the share of Americans who identify as Latino or Hispanic, there would be 812,440 more businesses generating a combined $1.1 trillion in revenue and $250 billion in payroll.
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Charting the surge in Latino or Hispanic-owned businesses in the US
Growth in Latino or Hispanic-owned businesses hasn’t come at the expense of other race or ethnic groups; it has been additional, and there’s still room to grow.
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May 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM
If the share of Latino or Hispanic-owned employer businesses equaled the share of Americans who identify as Latino or Hispanic, there would be 812,440 more businesses generating a combined $1.1 trillion in revenue and $250 billion in payroll.
www.brookings.edu/articles/cha...
www.brookings.edu/articles/cha...
Federal disaster policy does a poor job of risk mitigation in the most vulnerable communities. A new methodology for estimating disaster risks using social vulnerability data could help. New research from me and @atyia.bsky.social at @brookings.edu www.brookings.edu/articles/a-n...
A new federal disaster resilience policy is overlooking many Black and Latino or Hispanic communities
This report explores the distribution of social vulnerability and racial demographics across CDRZs.
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April 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Federal disaster policy does a poor job of risk mitigation in the most vulnerable communities. A new methodology for estimating disaster risks using social vulnerability data could help. New research from me and @atyia.bsky.social at @brookings.edu www.brookings.edu/articles/a-n...
Hmm, it's almost as if most Americans are worried about climate change...
Check the stats on support for climate policies. 77% of Americans support renewables! Wow. climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizatio...
Check the stats on support for climate policies. 77% of Americans support renewables! Wow. climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizatio...
Yale Climate Opinion Maps 2024 - Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
Explore climate change beliefs, risk perceptions, and policy support at every geographic level in the United States.
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March 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Hmm, it's almost as if most Americans are worried about climate change...
Check the stats on support for climate policies. 77% of Americans support renewables! Wow. climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizatio...
Check the stats on support for climate policies. 77% of Americans support renewables! Wow. climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizatio...
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EPA announces that it is unfreezing $7 Billion in "Solar For All" grants that were authorized under the Inflation Reduction Act. In these dark times, we'll take all the good news we can get! 1/ www.pv-magazine.com/2025/03/05/u...
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency unfreezes $7 billion Solar for All grant program
The announcement comes after the EPA instantly froze the funds last month.
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March 6, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Roughly 9.8% of employer businesses were financially impacted by extreme weather in 2022. In some cities like New Orleans, close to 50% were impacted. Why aren't more business leaders calling for stronger adaptation policy???
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Map 1. Proportion of businesses that experienced monetary loss because of extreme weather, by metro area
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March 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Roughly 9.8% of employer businesses were financially impacted by extreme weather in 2022. In some cities like New Orleans, close to 50% were impacted. Why aren't more business leaders calling for stronger adaptation policy???
@andreperryedu.bsky.social
www.brookings.edu/interactive/...
@andreperryedu.bsky.social
www.brookings.edu/interactive/...
I get that it's great to see an increase since 2014, but wild to me that still only 39% of Americans think that Americans' is being harmed by global warming!
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February 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I get that it's great to see an increase since 2014, but wild to me that still only 39% of Americans think that Americans' is being harmed by global warming!
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Extreme heat can age you as fast as a smoking habit grist.org/health/extre...
Extreme heat can age you as fast as a smoking habit
Exposure to high temps adds up to 14 months to older adults' cellular age.
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February 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Extreme heat can age you as fast as a smoking habit grist.org/health/extre...
Today's chart: Black-owned employer businesses have seen 5 years of strong growth, with an average annual growth rate of 9.7%. This strong growth helped support communities during the height of COVID-19 by creating jobs and bolstering economic activity. @andreperryedu.bsky.social
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February 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Today's chart: Black-owned employer businesses have seen 5 years of strong growth, with an average annual growth rate of 9.7%. This strong growth helped support communities during the height of COVID-19 by creating jobs and bolstering economic activity. @andreperryedu.bsky.social
@brookings.edu
@brookings.edu
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"Those who remained, about 65 staffers, were integrated into DOGE’s government-slashing effort. About a third of them quit Tuesday."
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Federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE
Twenty-one civil service employees have resigned from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, saying they're refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle ...
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February 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"Those who remained, about 65 staffers, were integrated into DOGE’s government-slashing effort. About a third of them quit Tuesday."
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Surprised by how little coverage it's getting. Jane Fonda's speech at SAG was great! Compelling and authentic. Few people said anything meaningful at the awards, but Jane Fonda's speech made up for it.
Wrote a bit about Jane Fonda's showstopping SAG Awards speech—and why it meant so much coming from a celebrity who has always put not just her money but her body where her mouth is. time.com/7261061/jane...
Jane Fonda's Fiery SAG Awards Speech Was an Instant Classic
Her Life Achievement Award speech invoked empathy as a counterargument to the idea that actors should avoid politics
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February 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Surprised by how little coverage it's getting. Jane Fonda's speech at SAG was great! Compelling and authentic. Few people said anything meaningful at the awards, but Jane Fonda's speech made up for it.
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New from my team: for the same volume of energy transition minerals it would take to make all of the Pentagon's non-combat vehicles into EVs, we could electrify the entire Postal Service, the entire Parks Service, and put battery backup on more than 7600 federal buildings. 🧵
Redirecting Energy Transition Minerals from the Pentagon Fleet to the Public Good - Climate and Community Institute
The Pentagon is the world’s largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels, but it is also the US federal government’s leader in electrifying some of its transportation—especially …
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February 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
New from my team: for the same volume of energy transition minerals it would take to make all of the Pentagon's non-combat vehicles into EVs, we could electrify the entire Postal Service, the entire Parks Service, and put battery backup on more than 7600 federal buildings. 🧵
When Black-owned businesses are left on the sidelines, whole communities suffer. Check mine and @andreperryedu.bsky.social analysis below.
www.brookings.edu/articles/dri...
www.brookings.edu/articles/dri...
Driving prosperity: How Black-owned businesses fueled recent economic growth
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February 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
When Black-owned businesses are left on the sidelines, whole communities suffer. Check mine and @andreperryedu.bsky.social analysis below.
www.brookings.edu/articles/dri...
www.brookings.edu/articles/dri...
Imagine waking up to find out you have to pay back a subsidy that you already benefited from. All due to an ideological battle over climate policy. insideclimatenews.org/news/1402202...
Trump Executive Order Takes Back Funds to Help Low-Income Alabama Residents Pay Electric Bills - Inside Climate News
Many of the 2,000 Alabama households impacted had already seen the funds credited to their accounts and will have to pay the money back on their next bill.
insideclimatenews.org
February 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Imagine waking up to find out you have to pay back a subsidy that you already benefited from. All due to an ideological battle over climate policy. insideclimatenews.org/news/1402202...
Black-owned employer businesses were responsible for around half the growth in all businesses between 2017 and 2022. Supporting an inclusive business environment is good for communities and good for economic growth. Sign up for our event below to learn more.
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Driving prosperity: How supporting Black entrepreneurship has fueled significant growth and can sustain future momentum
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February 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Black-owned employer businesses were responsible for around half the growth in all businesses between 2017 and 2022. Supporting an inclusive business environment is good for communities and good for economic growth. Sign up for our event below to learn more.
www.brookings.edu/events/drivi...
www.brookings.edu/events/drivi...