The recent book by Emma Amador examines Puerto Rican women social workers’ advocacy for social justice under U.S. colonialism ...

Puerto Rico’s electorate gave the Puerto Rico Independence Party candidate for governor 13.7%, the party’s best showing since 1956. The socially liberal Citizen’s Victory Movement candidate ...

An Urgent Rescue Plan for Puerto Rico. The Biden administration has pledged to provide Puerto Rico—home to more than 3 million U.S. citizens—with the resources and technical assistance it ...

Advocates are asking for policy changes as they commemorate the 6th anniversary of Hurricane Maria that killed more than 3,000 people. Power 4 Puerto Rico, which is a coalition composed of ...

A coalition of pro-statehood groups from Puerto Rico — including the leaders of the island’s Democratic and Republican parties — are calling on Congress to pass a bill to change the ...

Changes to Puerto Rico’s tax code since 2012 have reduced corporate tax rates to just 4 percent, and have exempted all interest and dividend income, encouraging rich non–Puerto Ricans to take ...

As Puerto Rico works very slowly to restore power to the roughly 80% of the island that remains in the dark after getting smacked from Hurricane Fiona, it’s worth remembering that the “… ...

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has proposed changes that could cut off internet and phone service to 8 million Americans, many of them Puerto Ricans recovering from Hurricane Irma.

But the law made several other major changes to Puerto Rico’s K-12 system, including a new floor for per-pupil spending and a reorganization of the island’s education bureaucracy.

This been said, a change in tax policy that fails to address how Puerto Rico is classified under the Internal Revenue Code — that is, as a foreign jurisdiction — will always be subject to ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Puerto Rican voters on Sunday appeared headed to rejecting a pair of constitutional amendments that would limit some defendants' right to bail and shrink ...

In the last 90 years, three catastrophic hurricanes have struck Puerto Rico. San Felipe II in 1928 and San Ciprían in 1932 triggered political and economic changes in America’s largest colony ...