Golda Markowitz- Introduction

“Two hundred fifty million dollars given by the federal government to a state in response to a tragedy” might arouse many different assumptions about the government's way of responding. Such a case occurred in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in response to the bridge collapse that occurred there. The public responses to tragic events often correlate with the magnitude of the attention they receive in the media, which in turn is greatly influenced by the socio-economic classes of the victims of the tragedy. For instance, due to the fact that Minneapolis is a wealthy, upper class area, it attracted major aid from the government and the public in response to the bridge collapse that occurred there.