FEMA is distributing debit cards to victims.
From the WaPo...
Michael Brown, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency which is administering the novel card program, said it is aimed at those with the most pressing needs.
"The concept is to get them some cash in hand which allows them, empowers them, to make their own decisions about what do they need to have to start rebuilding ," Brown said.
I am dumbfounded. Why not invest the money in creating JOBS for these people? Like a WPA or CCC