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En 1948 el ingreso neto per cƔpita en Puerto Rico era $256 por persona. La infraestructura de carreteras, electricidad y telecomunicaciones era rudimentaria, por no decir artesanal. Ese aƱo pasaron muchas cosas en la isla. Y aunque usted no lo crea el 2 de noviembre de ese aƱo se llevaron a cabo unas elecciones generales.
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).
For decades, Puerto Rico and the other U.S. territories have been deprived of access to federal programs specifically designed to provide a safety net, break persistent poverty cycles and jumpstart the economy. These limitations unfairly discriminate against the residents of U.S. territories and perpetuate long-standing inequities. Three recent court decisions suggest discriminatory policies against the residents of U.S. territories will no longer stand.
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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.
Luego de cuatro aƱos de haberse aprobado la ley federal PROMESA, y cerca de quince aƱos consecutivos de medidas de austeridad fiscal, nuestro vocabulario de la gestiĆ³n pĆŗblica ha adoptado conceptos y tĆ©rminos generalmente asociados con el sector empresarial. Desde entonces se procura āoptimizarā recursos, mejorar la āeficienciaā en la prestaciĆ³n de servicios y alcanzar la āautosuficienciaā en las distintas dependencias pĆŗblicas.
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.
