One in four Puerto Ricans is 65 or older, raising concerns over poverty, health care and housing. #NewsismyBusiness
Educational degrees strongly influenced poverty levels for both genders. #NewsismyBusiness
The San Juan school was recognized for its educational excellence and impact in reducing poverty. #NewsismyBusiness
For this project, the nonprofit organization Platform for Social Impact is focusing on the Villa Prades community in San Juan, according to its winning proposal. #NewsismyBusiness
The U.S. Census Bureau’s Community Survey found that household and family incomes saw no significant changes, but poverty rates rose slightly, despite a large drop in unemployment. #NewsismyBusiness
The Two-Generation Model connects families with several sources of support to cover their needs.
The numbers show the contrasts between the periods of 2011 to 2015 and 2016 to 2020.
Nonprofit organization Youth Development Institute is urging the Puerto Rico Department of the Family to urge the federal government to disburse some $30 million a month in funding approved in March, which have yet to be disbursed, to aid the island’s poor kids. The nonprofit blamed the federal government’s bureaucracy for the delay in funding […]
Two years after starting operations at the Ernesto Ramos Antonini Residential in San Juan, Vimenti by Boys & Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico registered an improvement in the well-being of families, academic achievement of its students and levels of employability of its participants, program officials said. This was part of the findings of a report […]
During the 2014-2018 period, 50% or more of the population in 36 of Puerto Rico’s 78 municipalities lived in poverty. Of those 36 towns, in six of them — Maricao, Guánica, Adjuntas, Lajas, Jayuya and Comerío — the level of poverty reached between 60% to 64%, according to the latest statistics revealed in the U.S. […]
This past fall, Hurricanes Irma and María struck Puerto Rico, leaving hundreds of thousands of people in their wake without the necessities for survival. More than three months after Hurricane María’s landfall, the island is still in crisis.
When Hurricane María hit Puerto Rico it uncovered the poverty that exists in the island, which makes it the poorest United States jurisdiction.
The United States, one of the world’s richest nations and the “land of opportunity,” is fast becoming a champion of inequality, according to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston.
Puerto Rican children and their families face significant economic distress, according to the 2017 Kids Count Data Book released Tuesday by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
The United Nations Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights has called for fair solutions to the huge debt crisis in Puerto Rico, warning that ratcheting up austerity measures will threaten residents’ human rights and worsen the U.S. territory’s “intolerable” poverty levels.
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