How Mississippi’s Floods Highlight America’s Inequality

How Mississippi’s Floods Highlight America’s Inequality

How Mississippi’s Floods Highlight America’s Inequality

Major disasters show us how interdependent people are in this country and force us to better understand how we can work together in communities and in government.

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National emergencies, such as the flooding in Mississippi, can reveal political inequalities, The Nation‘s Melissa Harris-Perry argued on MSNBC Live with Thomas Roberts this morning. In her new "Soundoff" segment on the show, Harris-Perry explains that a community’s ability to ride out a disaster depends on whether there are homes for people to go to, whether people earn living wages and have access to health care.

"Nobody asks if you’re a Republican or a Democrat when they come to bring you the sandbags," Harris-Perry says, and disasters show how we as a people "need to work together in communities and as a government frankly." 

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