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The School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership hosts Assumption University Professor Emeritus and RealClear Foundation Senior Fellow Daniel J. Mahoney, who will teach a course designed to inspire students to value French thinker Alexis de Tocqueville's contributions to American democracy.
Climate change is raising flood risks in neighborhoods across the U.S. much faster than many people realize. Over the next three decades, the cost of flood damage is on pace to rise 26% due to climate change alone, an analysis of our new flood risk maps shows.
Climate change could result in the financial toll of flooding rising by more than a quarter in the United States by 2050 -- and disadvantaged communities will bear the biggest brunt, according to new research.
People are still building in high-risk areas. Flood losses will rise. Deep inequities define who'll endure America’s crippling flood problem.
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