Rafael Cox Alomar, the PDP candidate for resident commissioner, remarked in a TV appearance yesterday that Puerto Rico can do without Social Security because there are “sufficient economic resources here in Puerto Rico to attend to our elderly without absolute dependence on programs from the outside,” according to Caribbean Business.Read More »Should Puerto Ricans Give Up Social Security?
It has happened again. A credible news source has referred to Puerto Ricans as “immigrants.” Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens, and when they move to the states – as many, many do – they are not immigrants.Read More »U.S. Senate Candidate Richard Carmona and Puerto Rican “Immigrants”
In 1983, the Coalition for Human and Civil Right Advocates studied the portrayal of Puerto Rico in U.S. textbooks and found that:
The authors of these textbooks, both old and new, appear to have read exactly the same sources and books. Their accounts, offering minimal and generally misleading information, are virtually identical in every case.
And in every case, their presentation of the facts came from an Anglo perspective that reduces Puerto Rican history to little more than a footnote in the “pageant” of U.S. history. Given the complete absence of the Puerto Rican perspective and the failure to include new scholarship from Puerto Rican historians, and we have excellent historians, the information presented in even the newest textbooks remains one-dimensional and insufficient.Read More »How Do U.S. Textbooks Portray Puerto Rico?
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded ten grants worth over $12 million to Puerto Rico.Read More »Puerto Rico-Florida Partnership Receives $7 Million NCI Grant
Puerto Rico’s former governors Rafael Hernández Colón and Carlos Romero Barceló may seem like an unlikely pairing for a joint project.Read More »Former Governors Join Forces for Presidential Campaign
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) has released a new report about the upcoming plebiscite vote in preparation for questions Members of Congress are likely to have as Election Day draws near. The CRS is the research arm of Congress, and the release of this particular report indicates that plebiscite results will be considered by Members of Congress and their staffs in the weeks and months ahead.Read More »CRS Report Prepares Congress for Plebiscite
The group U.S. English has released a poll showing that more than half of Puerto Ricans would vote for statehood if there were a yes/no vote on the question.Read More »U.S. English Poll Shows Bias
We posted an earlier article noting the unfairness of denying Puerto Ricans billions of federal dollars under the premise that Puerto Ricans alone do not pay federal income tax when, in truth, roughly half of the U.S. population is similarly situated.
But that is only one part of the story. Read More »Fairness for Puerto Rico and the “47%” (Part II)
A Pennsylvania judge has ordered state officials not to enforce the commonwealth’s new voter ID law in the upcoming election. As a result, Pennsylvania voters will no longer have to produce a photo ID in order to cast a ballot this November.Read More »Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Blocked
