Plundering the Poor After Natural Disasters

The Leonard Lopate Show | Aug 7, 2015

John C. Mutter discusses how natural disasters allow the elite to prosper at the expense of the poor. In The Disaster Profiteers: How Natural Disasters Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Even Poorer, Mutter looks at what happens after the media has lost interest, the last volunteer has handed out a final blanket, and people are left to repair their lives, from Myanmar to New Orleans.

Related: How the American Red Cross Spent Its Haiti Money

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