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Hurricane kids: What Katrina taught us about saving Puerto Rico's youngest storm victims

  • Written by Alice Fothergill, Professor of Sociology, University of Vermont

The catastrophe that followed Hurricane Maria’s landfall in Puerto Rico, on Sept. 20, 2017, affected all of Puerto Rico’s 3.3 million citizens.

Everyone lost power for weeks. Half of all Puerto Ricans went without electricity until Thanksgiving. Thirty-five percent celebrated Christmas in the dark. Several thousand would not see their...

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