Puerto Rico’s Status to Cost Needy $2.2 Billion in Federal Food Funds
The Democratic majority U.S. Senate this week passed a bill that would deny millions of low-income Puerto Ricans some $2.2 billion in food over the next five years that would be provided to their fellow Americans in the States.
The discrimination against Puerto Rico in the agriculture and nutrition programs reauthorization bill was made possible by the islands’ territory status, sometimes misleadingly called “commonwealth.”Read More »Puerto Rico’s Status to Cost Needy $2.2 Billion in Federal Food Funds