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On May 16, Representative Nydia M. Velázquez (D- NY) led a group of congressional colleagues in a letter to House leaders urging greater oversight by… Read More »Act 60 Shenanigans and Federal Oversight

Jaime Arroyo has been declared winner of the Democratic primary for mayor of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Arroyo, a native of Ponce who came with his family… Read More »Puerto Rican Candidates Face off in Lancaster, PA Primary; Jaime Arroyo Wins

“The tariff issue is a controversial one, but for Puerto Rico, it’s a great opportunity,” said Governor Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon last week as she explained that… Read More »Could Puerto Rico Benefit from Tariffs?

Puerto Rico Resident Commissioner Pablo José Hernández has introduced the HABLA Act, a bill to ensure  multilingual access to government services. Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Nydia Velázquez… Read More »HABLA Act Seeks to Ensure Multilingual Access to Government Services

The United States government has thirteen principal statistical agencies (PSAs), a dozen of which gather data in the U.S. territories, including Puerto Rico.  A new… Read More »Data Collection in Puerto Rico

Most of the current states were once territories of the United States, and — as we’ve seen in previous posts — most of them had… Read More »Why Are Territories Admitted as States?

In recent years, Puerto Rico’s economy has been shorn up by U.S. funds, often allocated in response to a natural disaster or as a one-time… Read More »Puerto Rico Told to Expect Cuts in Federal Funding

Tourism industry publication Travel and Tour World reports that visits to Puerto Rico from Canada are increasing even as tourism from Canada to the states… Read More »Puerto Rico Experiences a Canadian Tourism Surge