Children and youth in Puerto Rico continue to live in families facing enormous economic challenges, with some 84 percent residing in areas of extreme poverty and the parents of more than half lacking full-time, year-round employment.
A study released Wednesday by the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico on current conditions the island’s elderly population is facing revealed that 40 percent of seniors 65 and older have incomes that place them at the level of extreme poverty.
The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s chronic foot-dragging on allowing individuals and businesses to connect their renewable energy systems to the grid is causing the island to lose out on federal funding opportunities available from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development agency, this media outlet confirmed.
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