Because the flooding leaves communities isolated, income-generating activities are also severely curtailed.
Excessive reliance on a single source of employment, production, and economic activity leaves communities inordinately vulnerable.
The exposure of embezzlement leaves communities thunderstruck and wounded at the revelation of neighbors stealing from neighbors, friends cheating friends.
The process of giving people training for jobs, for example can, in a perverse way, create a brain drain that leaves communities ever more locked in struggle.
That reality, which leaves communities all across the country exposed to the depredations of organized crime without any protection from local law enforcement, is ultimately the federal government's responsibility.
The defeat of the $2 billion environmental bond act on Tuesday leaves communities throughout New York State with few ways to pay for urgent and costly landfill and recycling programs, many of them required by law.
