Xie, Ming2025-04-012025-04-012025-02-10Xie, Ming. "If FEMA Didn't Exist, Could States Handle the Disaster Response Alone?" The Conversation, February 10, 2025. http://theconversation.com/if-fema-didnt-exist-could-states-handle-the-disaster-response-alone-248758.http://hdl.handle.net/11603/37894FEMA pools national resources to help states quickly manage disasters. Without that federal support, each state would be left to build its own expensive response capabilities.4 pagesen-USAttribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/Text