FEMA has hard time preparing for future disasters

An Associated Press article that appeared in scores of newspapers across the U.S., including The New York Times, on the Federal Emergency Management Agency's budget and the lack of federal money to prepare for disasters that have yet to occur, quotes Natalie Simpson, associate professor in the School of Management and an expert on emergency management, who says that "We have the hardest time paying attention to things that haven't happened yet." Go to article.