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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

The GOP on Puerto Rico

One of the most frequent claims about Puerto Rican statehood in mainland media is the notion that a Republican Congress won’t allow Puerto Rico to become a state. A primarily Hispanic population, the thinking goes, would be bound to support Democrats, shifting the balance of power within the Congress.

Does the recent history of the Republican party support this claim?Read More »The GOP on Puerto Rico