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In late September, Congress provided a short-term fix to maintain current levels of Medicaid funding for Puerto Rico until November 21. Yet if Congress does… Read More »The Danger of Medicaid Cliffs

A prominent organization in Puerto Rico is supporting permanent union and equal rights of U.S. citizenship for Americans by asking the U.S. Congress to reclassify… Read More »Puerto Rico-USA Foundation Petitions for “Incorporated Territory” Status

Last year, the U.S. Congress enacted a law making the ancient sport of cockfighting illegal in the U.S. territories, just as it is in all… Read More »Cockfighting Goes to Court

Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ),  who is the chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has asked the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate… Read More »Pallone Requests GAO Evaluation of Puerto Rico Telecommunications

Census data released last Thursday confirms that Puerto Rico is still losing residents to the States, but there have been some changes in Puerto Rican… Read More »Puerto Rico Is Losing Population to the States — Which States?

U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) announced last week that he had received a response to a letter he and several members of… Read More »Chairman Grassley Unsatisfied with CMS Response on Puerto Rico Medicaid

New data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows real signs of recovery from Hurricane Maria, even though the news is not all positive. Data from… Read More »New Census Data on Puerto Rico

Eight Senate Democrats —including three running for president — and five House of Representatives Democrats have asked the PROMESA Financial Board (FOMB) to halt all… Read More »Democrats Urge Pause in Debt Talks