made landfall on the island of Puerto Rico‚ causing what has been characterized as the worst devastation to hit the island in decades. While the people of Puerto Rico attempted to recover‚ the issue of statehood has remained in limbo since the June 2017 referendum held in Puerto Rico to vote on the island’s current territorial status. This current referendum resulted in 97% of the residents that voted‚ to cast their vote in favor of statehood. The governor of Puerto Rico has been promoting statehood
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” as many people like to call Puerto Rico‚ is spot on for the circumstances they are currently in. Puerto Rico’s economy has been quite the topic for discussion lately‚ with their debt climbing to unpayable amounts and their economy slowly crashing. Puerto Rico has accumulated their debt many ways; the main one being borrowing municipal bonds over the years‚ and has led to their growing $73 billion dollar debt. The debt has gotten so out of control that former Puerto Rican governor‚ Alejandro García
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Puerto Rico is an island located in the Atlantic Ocean‚ off of the East Coast of the Dominican Republic. The island of Puerto Rico is appealing‚ but being and island makes it more prone to natural disasters such as Hurricanes. Last September‚ two massive hurricanes‚ Maria and Irma hit Puerto Rico‚ significantly damaging the island. The economy was already deficient‚ but to make matters worse‚ repairs from the hurricanes cost tens of billions of dollars‚ substantially decrypting the economy even though
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Puerto Rico is a beautiful Caribbean island and a United States territory. Puerto Ricans have been citizens of the USA since 1917. The legal status of the island and its relationship with the US continues to be a controversial issue. Puerto Ricans pay some taxes‚ and serve in the military‚ but can’t vote in US elections. The majority of the people of the islands have expressed anger with the current political status in vote in 2012. Many Puerto Ricans want independence from Washington. The Puerto
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Should the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico become one of the United States Puerto Rico is an island in the West Indies acquired by the United States after the Spanish-America War in 1898. Puerto Rico is considered a commonwealth‚ a nation or state governed by the people‚ a republic. The capital of Puerto Rico is San Juan. Puerto Rico currently chooses its local officials and decides its own budget and taxes. On four occasions the option to continue a commonwealth‚ choose statehood‚ or independence
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Most households in puerto rico have three people. They grow rice‚stewed beans‚meats.They use the same education as the U.S. Same as the U.S. 3‚725‚789 people live in the urban. Employment is regulation in puerto rico. They buy there food at restaurants‚ market‚ farms. Approximately 400‚000 people are affected by the rationing plans on the island with a total of 1‚230‚000 customers under AAA services. Water scarcity has a huge impact on food production. Without water people do not have a means
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in Puerto Rico. Donald Trump is trying to help Puerto Rico with a waiver known as “Jones Act”. The Jones Act makes goods shipped between places in the United States to be carried by American-made vessels. WHY: Puerto Rico wants the waiver to access medicine‚ food‚ clothing‚ and other supplies. WHO: Donald Trump is helping Puerto Ricans with this waiver. WHEN: On September 8th‚ a temporary waiver was granted by the request of the departments of Defense and Energy. WHERE: San Juan‚ Puerto Rico‚ after
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Chris DePriest Professor Simonian Why Read? 13 November 2012 Imaginary Prophecies It was said that "a book is not justified by its authors worthiness to write it‚ but by the quality of what has been written.......the real risks of any artist are taken in the work‚ in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible‚ in the attempt to increase the sum of what is possible to think" (Rushdie 14-15). Literature has exemplified these certain risks for many years now‚ however although these artists
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Why Puerto Ricans are broken? Nowadays‚ where rumors that Puerto Rico’s government is going to close‚ because the debt of 72 billion dollars that Puerto Ricans can not pay and a possible implementation of a control board that could make decisions without any opinion from the governor in turn democratically elected‚ raises the question: Why Puerto Rico is broke? The control board purpose is to help Puerto Rico pay the debt‚ rather to solve the economic crisis. Where is constitutional stopping
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Final Case Report: Walmart Puerto Rico Sergio Adrián Ayllón Espinoza Marcia Zarella Sanchez Aguirre Richard Madge Medina Michael Yábar Paredes 1. One of the major criticisms of Walmart is that the organization causes problems for local communities‚ how should Walmart combat this negative publicity? Actually as Walmart is making efforts to reduce imports in order to benefit local communities they should benefit from that negative publicity creating a new campaign claiming that when you buy in
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