A year after Superstorm Sandy wreaked havoc across the eastern United States, only a fraction of the aid money earmarked for recovery has been used, in what some claim is a painfully slow and opaque process.
A year After Superstorm Sandy, Federal Aid Trickles in

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Photographer Larry Racioppo's album is part of "Rising Waters," an exhibit of 200 photographs taken after Superstorm Sandy in New York, Long Island and New Jersey. The pictures were culled from among 10,000 submissions from the public.

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Pieces of an oceanfront home destroyed by Superstorm Sandy are scattered next to an existing home in Mantoloking N.J., Oct. 15, 2013.

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This combination of Nov. 22, 2012 and Oct. 13, 2013 photos shows debris left by Superstorm Sandy where the boardwalk had been in front of Lucky Leo's arcade in Seaside Heights, N.J. and the bottom photo shows people walking near Lucky Leo's one year later.

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People line up along the beach in the Belle Harbor section of the Rockways during the "Rockaway Rising: Hands Across the Sand," beachside ceremony commemorating the one year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, Oct. 27, 2013, in New York.