Vox
•How the Los Angeles fires highlight the challenge of disaster relief
81% Informative
Julian Zelizer : After major disasters like this one, one of the most common questions people ask is how to help.
Donors can’t typically do much to speed search-and-rescue efforts, Zelizer says.
He says it’s surprisingly challenging to turn generosity into results for the people affected by disasters.
Zelizer writes: Effective giving in response to disasters requires looking at potential charities.
Donations happen almost immediately after a disaster, and quickly die down as the news cycle moves on to other things.
Charity evaluators like GiveWell have found it particularly hard to get the clarity they prize when it comes to disaster relief.
Disaster relief is a field where there’s a lot of uncertainty about what works.
GiveWell has called Doctors Without Borders a leader in transparency.
A charity that does cash transfers to the poorest people in the world did a good experiment in disaster relief.
David Frum : Experiments should be announced in advance, have a clear mission statement and report how the trial went.
VR Score
82
Informative language
81
Neutral language
35
Article tone
informal
Language
English
Language complexity
54
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Attention-grabbing headline
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Known propaganda techniques
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Time-value
medium-lived
External references
23
Source diversity
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