US Elections Analysis: When does the election end?
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.
Federal Issues
PROMESA, Four Years Later
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.
Summary of PeƱa Martinez v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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).
El Censo 2020: la importancia de hacernos contar
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.
Unemployment Compensation
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.
PROMESA, 4 years later
Four years after the enactment of PROMESA, Puerto Rico still faces massive debt and economic challenges – now, further exacerbated by the 2017 hurricanes, the series of earthquakes that have rattled the island since December 2019, and most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic. Early on, the Center for a New Economy (CNE) warned the measures being considered by Congress would not address the underlying issues affecting the island.
El lavado de manos del Congreso
Rosanna Torres explica las medidas que el Congreso de EE. UU. debe tomar para apoyar a Puerto Rico durante la pandemia del COVID-19.
Letter to Congressional Leadership Regarding the COVID-19 Pandemic in Puerto Rico
Letter to Congressional Leadership Regarding COVID-19 in Puerto Rico