The Puerto Rico Financial Oversight and Management Board today wrote Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla and Governor-Elect Ricardo Rossello with its initial fiscal prescriptions for the… Read More »PROMESA Board Prescribes Fiscal Remedies
Jenniffer González, the new Resident Commissioner for Puerto Rico, is confident that the time is ripe for statehood for Puerto Rico, according to an interview… Read More »Incoming Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Confident about Relationship with Trump
The Puerto Rico Government Development Bank today issued a 300-page “Financial Information and Operating Data report. Most of the information in the report is as… Read More »GDB Releases Financial Report
The U.S. Census Bureau has released new figures for Puerto Rico. These numbers compare Puerto Rico at the time of the most recent census with… Read More »New Census Data on Puerto Rico
Governor-Elect Ricardo Rossello (New Progressive Party/PNP) signaled changes in the Government of Puerto Rico’s fiscal course in naming two members of his top fiscal… Read More »Rossello Pledges “Good Faith” Debt Talks
It has often been said that the Jones-Shafroth Act, which brought U.S. citizenship to the people of Puerto Rico in 1917, was motivated by the need… Read More »Was Puerto Rican Citizenship All about the Draft?
The people of Puerto Rico are natural-born citizens of the United States. This has been true since 1917, when Congress gave citizenship to everyone born… Read More »Rep. Alan Grayson Calls for Presidential Votes for Puerto Rico
Pedro Pierluisi, Puerto Rico’s Resident Commissioner for the past eight years, delivered his final floor speech on December 7th, 2016. Beginning with thanks to his… Read More »Pierluisi: Puerto Rico’s Territory Status Undignified, Unsustainable
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), a member of the Congressional Task Force on Economic Growth in Puerto Rico, today introduced the Economic Mobility for Productive… Read More »Rubio Introduces Bill to Increase Wages in Puerto Rico
