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Since the 1990s, states have offered increasingly competitive incentives to lure productions away from other states. The structure, type, and size of the incentives vary from state to state. Many include tax credits and exemptions, and other incentive packages include cash grants, fee-free locations, or other perks.
Puerto Rico is still a paradise to enjoy Despite my challenges living in Puerto Rico, we enjoyed the warm weather, beaches, sightseeing , and food. We took the ferry from Cataño across the bay 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.
On October 17, 2006, Pedro Rosselló, a former governor of Puerto Rico, and the Unfinished Business of American Democracy Committee on behalf of the approximately four million U.S. citizens residing in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, presented a petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States ...
“To this day, 73% of Puerto Ricans don't have electric service. That also means, for many, that they don't have water service,” Martínez-Roman tells Yahoo Life.
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.
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 ...
In 1989, the $852.7 million NAP payments to island residents made up almost 20% of all US federal money transfers to Puerto Rico that year. [21] It has surpassed $1 billion annually since the early 1990s, and increased 30% from 1993 to 2002. [22] Since fiscal year 2006, the appropriation has reached over $1.5 billion annually. [2]