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As Puerto Rico enters the second half of 2025, a new report from NielsenIQ highlights growing financial pressure on local ...
Nearly half of Puerto Rico's population stand to lose federal food aid as families grapple with increasing poverty amid coronavirus-related unemployment rates.
The Caribbean island’s cuisine combines African, Indigenous and Spanish influences to create dishes of distinction.
Nearly 3 out of 4 young adults in Puerto Rico might not have ideal cardiovascular health due to lifestyle behaviors, new ...
After years of destructive weather that have disrupted Puerto Rico’s food supplies, new visions of local agriculture are taking root.
Economy August 19, 2022 Puerto Rico Has a Big-Pharma Problem The US territory gives pharmaceutical companies big tax breaks that could otherwise be invested in its communities, where the revenue ...
The findings are consistent with "well-known characteristics” of Puerto Rico's economy, such as limited job opportunities, stagnant wages and income disparities, researchers say.
Roberto Mercado ’25 survived Hurricane Maria, then worked to uplift Latiné communities from Puerto Rico to California ...
Puerto Rico is staking its place in the global culinary world with the launch of the Puerto Rico Wine & Food Festival. Running from April 3 to 6, 2025, this event will be hosted at San Juan's La ...
In Puerto Rico, Activists Transform Abandoned Land To Build Food Sovereignty In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, activists have turned abandoned land into a community garden. They say El Huerto is ...
A new study is shedding light on the financial challenges people in Puerto Rico face as a result of the economic turmoil they have endured since the Great Recession.
A new study is shedding light on the financial challenges people in Puerto Rico face as a result of the economic turmoil they have endured since the Great Recession.