The U.S. territory of Puerto Rico is recovering from multiple disasters, battling back from the COVID pandemic all while people on the island are struggling with poverty and food insecurity. Fordham ...

A recent study conducted by the Institute of Youth Development (IYD) in Puerto Rico is warning of a sharp increase in the already shameful level of child poverty in the US colony due to the COVID-19 ...

Puerto Rico is holding key hearings on fee increase requests from private power companies that, if approved, could see the ...

Star from the Detroit Tigers visited Puerto Rican families to help with the reconstruction and improvement of their homes ...

The Solar + Energy Storage Association of Puerto Rico (SESA) and Solar United Neighbors (SUN) are urging the Puerto Rico ...

Puerto Rico covers most groups with incomes up to 138 percent of the PRPL, which is about 60 percent of the federal poverty line ($7,650 a year) for an individual and 45 percent for a family of four ...

Feminist activist, lawyer and blogger Amárilis Pagán opines [es] that poverty reduction should be a central part of any democracy. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest ...

Gil the Jenius deconstructs the argument by political conservatives that “Poverty is a choice”. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples of how media committed to ...

Here’s what’s going on in Puerto Rico, and some of the biggest questions people are asking: How did Puerto Rico become a US territory? Puerto Rico was a Spanish colony for centuries until the US ...

Hurricane Fiona has shown again the importance of statehood for Puerto Rico [“Puerto Rico’s power warning,” Editorial, Sept. 20]. Its people deserve the ability to advocate for increased assistance ...

The island has had to weather a hurricane, a political crisis and earthquakes, but those crises did not lead to the widespread unemployment caused by the response to the coronavirus pandemic. By ...