As Puerto Rico enters the second half of 2025, a new report from NielsenIQ highlights growing financial pressure on local ...

Food insecurity in Puerto Rico has been a longstanding problem since the island embarked on the largest municipal bankruptcy proceeding in U.S. history less than a decade ago.

Today, about one-third of residents experience food insecurity. Puerto Rico also consumes 70 times more energy than it produces, indicating enormous new generation capacity must be brought online ...

In Puerto Rico, Activists Transform Abandoned Land To Build Food Sovereignty. ... where most of the food is imported and more than 40% of the population is below federal poverty levels and experience ...

Puerto Rico is going through a food revolution, and a new generation of farmers, like Fernando Maldonado, have lofty ambitions to feed the island. Nestled in the Carite rainforest, ...

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.

Puerto Rico has at least 19 contaminated sites that are on the national priority list for cleanup, she added. ... MORE: COVID-19 has made food insecurity worse in Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico Has a Big-Pharma Problem ... Rico communities, where it’s deeply needed—over 43 percent of the population lives in poverty and one-third are food insecure.