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Who Is Perceived as Deserving? How Social Identities Shape Attitudes about Disaster Assistance in the United States
Who Is Perceived as Deserving? How Social Identities Shape Attitudes about Disaster Assistance in the United States By Ashley D. Ross, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Stella M. Rouse, Arizona State University, Isabella Alcañiz, University of Maryland, College Park, Alejandra Marchevsky, California State University, Los Angeles Research has shown that as the size of government assistance programs grow, and the recipients of such programs are increasingly non-white and/or non-citizen, public support for them declines.