Puerto Rico ranks 31st on the Child and Youth Well-Being Index, compared with 51 U.S. jurisdictions. #NewsismyBusiness
The initiative will be supported by the tools provided by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunities Act.
More than 304,000 families could benefit this year from the Child Tax Credit (CTC) and 466,000 families from the Work Credit benefit, which together will benefit their pockets and inject up to $2.6 billion into the Puerto Rican economy, according to for Youth Development Institute of the nonprofit Espacios Abiertos (EA). Economist María Enchautegui, the […]
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 […]
The Youth Development Institute of Puerto Rico presented its study “A future of child poverty in Puerto Rico: How much does it cost us and what can we do about it,” which revealed the economic consequences of not paying attention to child poverty in Puerto Rico, plus 10 initiatives that can reduce the problem in […]
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