inaccurate assessment data. we reached out to fema, and they basically said, no, that s not a fair assessment. the new jersey program is a state run program, eligibility is determined by the state of new jersey, at the state s request, fema required its individual assistance data which is specific to eligibility for fema s program, not intended to be comprehensive data assessment for long term work. frustrated with the fact that the christie administration were not offering clearances over why hgi was fired and paid a settlement of more than $10 million, we put up an e-mail address and asked you to help us get to the bottom of what s going on. ben heygood has been working to help victims of the storm in new jersey as part of occupy sandy. hgi were fired for failing to produce and execute what should have been an executable process. i m on the ground doing disaster case management, specifically helping homeowners navigate this process. it s an extremely mismanaged program, in my opinion
hgi was fired and paid a settlement of more than $10 million, we put up an e-mail address and asked you to help us get to the bottom of what s going on. ben heygood has been working to help victims of the storm in new jersey as part of occupy sandy. hgi were fired for failing to produce and execute what should have been an executable process. i m on the ground doing disaster case management, specifically helping homeowners navigate this process. it s an extremely mismanaged program, in my opinion, criminally neglect. joining me now, stacy burger. questions about hgi. are you satisfied with the responses we ve been reporting? everything is not fine. the response from dca raises more questions than answers. if they knew this data was not right, why didn t they do
labor s been working out for a long time. and yesterday, i think, was bigger than anything that s ever happened in the labor actions against walmart. there s two ways to read what happened yesterday. there s one in the context of how many workers they have, which is 1.6 million associates and it s a massive operation, and so even if 100, 200, 1,000, or 15,000 people walk out, that s relatively small. the other way to look at it is in the history of walmart which has been resistant to any kind of concerted labor action. i m curious on your take away from yesterday. well, i think it s not big enough yet to see this as the turning point. i do agree that in the history of walmart, this is a bigger deal than we ve seen before. and i think the fact that it comes after the election and after occupy and occupy sandy, i think, was a big deal too. there was a little bit of a shift of how people are seeing labor and how people are seeing some of these whole sort of set of progressive ideas that
reporter: there are no official badges. all they have for identification is a first name crippled on tom masking tape. these volunteers may not have a legal charity status, but that s not stopping them. they desperately need our help. they lost everything. tax the rich. reporter: remember the occupy wall street movement famous for taking over zuccotti park and taking up the term 1%. now they have occupy sandy. occupy went to work and while fema temporarily shut its doors during last week s nor easter, due to bad weather, occupy never did. more than two weeks after the storm, thousands of people volunteer daily. sash that brown is just one of them. he helps pack up supplies and deliver them to people in need. i m just another new yorker helping out other new yorkers. reporter: his band finished touring so borrowed the van and showed up here. you pay for the gas? i am. the band is. i don t know but they re dough mating it.