Tag: Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico has accumulated more than $70 billion in government debt to bondholders and has a $46 billion pension liability. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

House GOP split over Puerto Rico debt crisis

Joel Gehrke · March 30, 2016 9:47 pm

Puerto Rico's debt adds up to somewhere around $70 billion, which is too large for an island of only 3.5 million, with a labor force only about a third that size, to pay back without serious economic growth and a significant restructuring. (AP Photo/Danica Coto)

Hey, Congress: Don’t scupper Puerto Rico’s constitution with Super Restructuring Authority

Ivan Rivera · March 28, 2016 4:01 am

Wall Street financiers have an interest in making the situation worse in Puerto Rico before it gets better. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo/File)

Puerto Rico’s game is rigged

Miguel SotoClass · March 11, 2016 5:02 am

Virus is primed to explode and spread dramatically on the island as the rainy season approaches. (AP Photo/Danica Coto)

CDC: Puerto Rico could have ‘hundreds of thousands’ of Zika cases

Robert King · March 10, 2016 5:39 pm

Rubio can grab all 23 of the delegates available in the U.S. territory by winning more than half of the island's primary votes. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Rubio wins Puerto Rico

Anna Giaritelli · March 6, 2016 9:43 pm

"A true solution for the 3.5 million Americans living in Puerto Rico, including reforms to strengthen Puerto Rico's Medicaid program, such as raising the federal share of Medicaid funding, requires Congress to act," said HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama administration seeks more Medicaid money for Puerto Rico

Robert King · February 18, 2016 4:21 pm

Why It’s So Important To Get Puerto Rico’s Reform Right

Ike Brannon, Logan Albright · February 2, 2016 12:21 pm

I was told that in the island of Puerto Rico theres a shortage of suitcases, luggage, because people are leaving that little country," Harry Reid said. (AP Photo)

Reid: Puerto Rico debt crisis is causing ‘shortage of suitcases’

Joel Gehrke · January 27, 2016 5:46 pm

The prospective 51st state is headed toward skid row on an epic scale: $72 billion in debt and an unemployment rate pushing 15 percent -- the direct result of decades of big government spending programs that continue unabated. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

No bailout for ‘Uncle Louie’

Eric Peters · January 27, 2016 5:01 am

The Zika virus spreads via a mosquito bite. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

CDC warns of rapidly spreading virus in Americas

Robert King · January 24, 2016 5:01 am

Step two means repealing the little-known, but highly significant 1920s-era Jones Act. The federal law prohibits tankers from hauling oil between U.S. ports unless they are American-made, flagged and manned by a crew that is 75 percent U.S. citizens. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

Step two after lifting the oil export ban

John Siciliano · January 22, 2016 6:00 am

The issue of Christmas bonuses touches on one of Puerto Rico's main problems: Its high cost of employment. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo, File)

Puerto Rico’s Christmas bonus default

Rachel Greszler · January 6, 2016 5:02 am