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The United States began with 13 colonies that turned into states. Since then, 37 more states have been admitted. The U.S. Constitution doesn’t go into… Read More »U.S. Report Tells 50 Stories of Statehood

Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY) has called on the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for data parity for Puerto Rico. Specifically, she and eleven… Read More »Data Parity for Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico is making a change. From now on, driver’s licenses from Puerto Rico will specify, “Puerto Rico, USA.” Licenses from states don’t identify the… Read More »New Drivers License: Puerto Rico, USA

Comparing the territory of Puerto Rico with the 50 states of the United States, we see that poverty is higher, food insecurity is higher, and… Read More »Comparing Puerto Rico with Trinidad and Tobago

As Congress considers the reauthorization of federal nutrition assistance in the context of the Farm Bill, the perennial issue of Puerto Rico’s inclusion in the… Read More »Congress Considers Equality for Puerto Rico in Nutrition Assistance

The entire island of Puerto Rico, with its three million plus U.S. citizen residents, is represented by just one person in Congress: Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon, the… Read More »Stateside Puerto Ricans Represented Most Heavily in FL, NY, MA, CT and PA

On October 4th, cell phones across the nation – including those in Puerto Rico – squawked in a test of  the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s… Read More »National Emergency Alert Included Puerto Rico

There’s always been a strain of support for Puerto Rican independence, going back to the time when Puerto Rico was a Spanish colony. In 1950,… Read More »Independence Movements around the World