Climate change is a growing threat to household financial security — we need to prepare

A powerful tornado recently ripped through the towns of Rolling Fork and Silver City, Mississippi devastating already vulnerable, lower-income communities. One family  who survived the destruction lives in a one-story home and are not sure how they are going to be able to make ends meet, having lost their vehicle in the thunderstorm, and suddenly unable to get to work. This Earth Day, with the larger systemic questions of climate change increasingly on the agenda, we cannot lose sight of these individual families who are doing their best every day to weather their respective storms.  

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