"The tornado touched down for just a short period of time, but it will take several weeks, perhaps months, to put so many lives and livelihoods back together," said Gov. M. Jodi Rell of Connecticut, who inspected the damage.
Action Aid Vietnam, a nongovernment organization, issued a report last week warning that thousands of families in rural Vietnam would lose their livelihood and "fall back into poverty" if the Commerce Department imposed the tariffs.
Since tourism, fisheries and agriculture are the three main industries in the affected areas, the unemployed have no alternative livelihoods to fall back on.
Filippo Romano's photography series "Nomadic Sellers" captures this population of door-to-door peddlers, pictured with the commodities that form their livelihood on their backs.
All they think of is of working the whole day and night to earn livelihood for their family back home.
After missing the Masters last year because of a resurgence of the rheumatoid arthritis that already had threatened his livelihood a decade ago, he is back in the field for the major tournament that he won in 1994 and 1999.
In 1887, the Hall of Famer John Montgomery Ward wrote, "Like a fugitive-slave law, the reserve-rule denies him a harbor or a livelihood, and carries him back, bound and shackled, to the club from which he attempted to escape".
For Australia, his words have great relevance as the disaster that has irrevocably affected his life and livelihood started in the back of a big yellow truck right here.
Since the majority of households in the study area do not have diversified livelihood options to fall back upon, they are normally vulnerable to extreme drought events.
How do we explain – to the living, to the survivors, to the orphans, to those who lost homes, families and livelihoods – how we stood back and did nothing?
