Financial and Economic Challenges in Puerto Rico. Program ID: 113596-1 Category: Senate Committee Format: Senate Committee Location: No Location. Related Video. October 31, 2017 ...

Puerto Rico’s Democratic Gov. Pedro Pierluisi said Wednesday that the island’s years of fiscal turmoil are in the past, with public finances buoyed by economic recovery, a debt restructuring ...

Puerto Rico faced immense challenges even before the devastation from Hurricane Maria. Its economy is 15 percent smaller now than it was ten years ago, and the latest high frequency indicators ...

Puerto Rico's population is declining. Faced with a deteriorating economy, increased poverty and a swelling crime rate, many citizens are fleeing the island for the U.S. mainland. In a four-part ...

Hurricane Maria exacerbated many of the difficulties that Puerto Rico was already facing, including a long-running debt crisis, unemployment and housing shortage. NewsHour Weekend’s Ivette ...

Puerto Rico’s difficult challenges pose a clear choice to US policymakers. They can either come up with a comprehensive and far-reaching economic support package for the island that gives the ...

Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Puerto Rico Treasury Secretary Melba Acosta and David Chafey, chairman of the island's Government Development Bank, talk about Puerto Rico's economy, budget and debt.

The Inter-American Dialogue hosted a discussion on Puerto Rico's economy and energy infrastructure more than one year after Hurricane Maria devastated the island. Puerto Rico's secretary of state ...

Hurricane Maria has thrown Puerto Rico's already messy economic recovery plans into disarray. For now, the focus has shifted from Puerto Rico's financial woes to meeting the basic needs of its 3.5 ...

A bipartisan group reintroduced a bill for a three-option referendum on Puerto Rico’s political status as a state or an independent nation Thursday, testing the consensus plan’s viability in a ...

The true crisis in Puerto Rico is neither economic nor humanitarian. This is a crisis of leadership. Policymakers, both locally and nationally, have failed to provide a bold vision for a world-clas… ...