CNE – Centro Para Una Nueva Economía – Center for a New Economy
Non-profit, economic research and policy development organization
A little over a month ago the U.S. Census Bureau published a notice of proposed rulemaking for the elimination of the Electronic Export Information filing requirement for shipments between the United States and Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. While for the most part this notice has flown under the radar, the negative implications it poses over Puerto Ricoās economic data merits our attention.
This year things are complicated by the COVID-19 pandemic and a record number of voters who have already cast their ballots to avoid the crowd on Election Day. This combination could result in a strange election night.
En un momento tan doloroso como este, en el que el mundo experimenta semejante pandemia, vale recordar que Puerto Rico atraviesa una situaciĆ³n aĆŗn mĆ”s delicada. Hay toda una generaciĆ³n en la isla que solo conoce la palabra ācrisisā.
With less than five weeks to the general election in the United States, the partisan temperature is rising as politicians and their lawyers plot their electoral strategies.
Four years since the enactment of PROMESA, the island of Puerto Rico is still grappling with nearly 15 years of economic contraction and a bankruptcy process that appears to have no end in sight. Making matters worse, just a year after PROMESA was signed into law, Puerto Rico was struck by not one but two devastating hurricanes in a span of 14 days.
In PeƱa Martinez v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, nine plaintiffs, all residents of Puerto Rico, challenged on constitutional grounds their exclusion from the Supplemental Security Income program (āSSIā); the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (āSNAPā); and the Medicare Part D Low-Income Subsidy program (āLISā).
A estas alturas del juego, no nos debe sorprender la enorme desconfianza que tenemos los puertorriqueƱos con el gobierno estatal y federal. Ambos nos han fallado en grande, y mucho de eso se manifiesta en nuestra bajĆsima tasa de participaciĆ³n en el Censo Decenal ā un cuestionario del censo que, desde el 1910, realiza el gobierno federal en Puerto Rico cada diez aƱos para medir nuestra poblaciĆ³n y otros importantes aspectos demogrĆ”ficos.
Great uncertainty lies ahead for the 50 million Americans that have relied on emergency unemployment compensation to meet basic needs after unexpectedly losing their job due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as the extra unemployment assistance is scheduled to end by July 31.
