A reminder. Financial indicators, extra fatalities.
Determine 1: EDB of PR Financial Exercise Index (black, left scale), nonfarm payroll employment, (blue, proper scale), civilian employment (pink, proper scale), each in 000’s, s.a. Trump administration interval shaded gentle orange. Supply: EDB, FRED.
Lest we neglect the catastrophe of the Trump FEMA response, listed here are a number of unbiased assessments: DHS OIG have doc precisely how poorly FEMA carried out. Different analyses have documented the differential response that occurred in the identical interval — that’s a lot bigger responses to hurricane landfalls in Texas and Florida.
From Sandberg, et al. (July 2019) in Epidemiology:
