“There are other steps we can take to help families make ends meet, and few are more effective at reducing inequality and helping families pull… Read More »Obama Pledges to Expand EITC – Puerto Rico Still Left Out
Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla used the territory’s U.S. Independence Day ceremony to dismiss serious crimes committed in the name of independence for the… Read More »Governor Dismisses Serious Crimes Done in the Name of Independence
What’s in a name? In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Juliet asks “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other… Read More »The Simple Truth: Puerto Rico Is a Territory
The Young Democrats of America (YDA) passed a resolution at their winter meeting in Salt Lake City this week, “urging President Barack Obama and the United States Congress to take action on the irrefutable and clear mandate sent by the people of Puerto Rico on November 6th, 2012 during which the current territorial political relationship of the island with the United States was rejected and an overwhelming majority voted in favor of Puerto Rico becoming the 51st state of the Union.”Read More »Young Democrats Support Puerto Rican Statehood
In his first formal remarks on the U.S. mainland following the historic November 6, 2012 plebiscite in which the continuation of Puerto Rico’s territorial status was rejected by 54% of the island’s voters, Puerto Rico’s second highest government official called upon the United States Congress to “tear down” the anachronistic wall of segregation and inequality that for nearly a century has deprived Puerto Ricans of the most basic rights of their American citizenship, and allow Puerto Rico to become a state.Read More »McClintock: Congress Must Take Action
It has happened again. A credible news source has referred to Puerto Ricans as “immigrants.” Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens, and when they move to the states – as many, many do – they are not immigrants.Read More »U.S. Senate Candidate Richard Carmona and Puerto Rican “Immigrants”
Puerto Rico’s former governors Rafael Hernández Colón and Carlos Romero Barceló may seem like an unlikely pairing for a joint project.Read More »Former Governors Join Forces for Presidential Campaign
