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Nutrition Assistance Grants are the Federal programs in Puerto Rico and American Samoa that provide food assistance through block grant funds in lieu of food stamps, and to the Northern Marianas under a covenant governing U.S. relations with that jurisdiction.
Others argue that the cost of the incentives outweighs the benefits and say that the money goes primarily to out-of-state talent rather than in-state cast and crew members. Studies show that tax incentives for movie and television productions have low overall economic effects, with low rates of return for states that offer the incentives.
Insular areas, including Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam, are not allowed to choose electors in U.S. presidential elections or elect voting members of the U.S. Congress. Puerto Rico is by far the most populous of these insular areas, with a population of over 3 million, which is larger than mainland states like Iowa, Arkansas and ...
When I was offered a dream job, I moved my family from the mainland US to Puerto Rico in 2015. On the island, we sometimes had no running water, struggled to get around, and items were costly ...
Vice President Kamala Harris visited Puerto Rico, going to a town that got federal housing funds to rebuild after Hurricane Maria and marking the island's 151st anniversary after abolishing slavery.
In 1963, the New York Daily News ran stories about an underground, word-of-mouth network of doctors in Puerto Rico who performed abortions on American women, from “suburban society matrons” to ...
The Authority for the Financing of the Infrastructure of Puerto Rico Spanish: Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Infraestructura de Puerto Rico (AFI)— is a government-owned corporation of Puerto Rico that grants administrative and financial assistance to other Puerto Rico government-owned corporations in order to develop facilities and improve the infrastructure of Puerto Rico.
In 1928, she pushed for the U.S. Congress to resolve the discrepancies in voting rights for women in Puerto Rico. Faced with the possibility that the federal legislature might give women the right to vote, the Puerto Rican legislature finally passed a law in 1929 granting suffrage to literate women.