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9:24 AM 10/8/2019 - The Red-Brown Alliance as the essence (Post Link), message, and the tool of Trumpism, the project of the New Abwehr. The Puerto Rico Crisis of July 2019 is the lesson in this Democracy Of Trumpistan, and also a sign of things to come. Get ready, The Whistleblowers! We need a lot of good, loud, and clear Whistles! - By Michael Novakhov - Google Search
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| Puerto Rico’s reckless involvement could worsen the Venezuela crisis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A so-called #BarcoPuertoRico (the Puerto Rican Ship) was sent by the government of Gov. Ricardo Rosselló to deliver aid to Venezuela. As with the events unfolding on the Venezuela-Colombia border, there was a lot of hype from Rosselló and his secretary of state, Luis Rivera Marín (a prominent Latino Republican). The U.S. territory took the calculated risk of trying to shock the world by doing something that not even the country that colonized it could accomplish: bring actual aid into Venezuela that would get attention and tip the scales in Guaidó’s quest to become the country’s next president.
Problem is, the ship never even got close.
Through a statement from Rosselló himself, the government of Puerto Rico claimed that the ship was directly threatened by the Venezuelan navy. If #BarcoPuertoRico got closer to the Venezuela, it would be shot at, risking the lives of the U.S. citizens on board. The threat was so real for Rosselló that the governor even reported it to the United States.
Rosselló’s statement caught the attention of Florida Republican Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott. It also caught Guaidó’s eye.
On the morning of Feb. 24, however, there were serious questions about whether the threats to #BarcoPuertoRico were as real as Rosselló was claiming. The Puerto Rican government insisted that video of the alleged threat was available and that any journalist interested should contact Telemundo Puerto Rico, which had a reporter on the ship.
By late Monday night of last week, the government of Puerto Rico stood by its claims, via a tweet from CBS News’ David Begnaud. Anyone who was asking questions was essentially working for Venezuela, was in effect the message coming from a government spokesperson. Soon enough, the news fizzled out and Rosselló never provided conclusive evidence of an armed threat. The boat, which had some journalists on board, sailed back to Curacao.
The admission was not the first time that the Rosselló administration decided to play a hand in the Venezuela crisis. Before #BarcoPuertoRico, there was a plane filled with aid that allegedly landed in Venezuela early in February. That is if you believe Secretary of State Rivera Marín, who went on CNN en Español to proclaim that the Puerto Rican plane had indeed landed inside Venezuela. A day after Marín said that, he took back his claim and said the plane never did land.
It is clear that humanitarian aid to Venezuela is being used as impetus for Guaidó to gain political momentum, so it’s not a stretch to state that what Puerto Rico tried to do twice was a foreign policy move. The question is: Why is Puerto Rico, as a territory of the United States, conducting foreign policy when it can’t? Unless the U.S. State Department is aware of what Puerto Rico is doing and has given it explicit permission, the sudden pushes by Rosselló and Rivera Marín to focus on Venezuela are bizarre.
What if #BarcoPuertoRico had been shot and sunk? What if Rivera Marín’s plane had been taken down? Were these two attempts to bring aid into Venezuela a disguise to provoke an armed conflict and give the United States the justification it needed for military intervention?
These moves by the Rosselló administration are very dangerous. Even the most ardent anti-Maduro nations, particularly those in Latin America, think military intervention and war would be disastrous not only for Venezuela but also for the region. Was Puerto Rico’s humanitarian aid trying to poke a bear that doesn’t need any poking?
Rosselló no longer has a good political relationship with the Trump administration, ever since the federal government’s failed response to Hurricane María. But was this Venezuela push a way to gain some political favor with Trump? Recently Rosselló posted a photo on Twitter with Vice President Pence at the White House during the National Governors Association gala. And this week, during his reelection announcement, Rosselló told his supporters that he will not stay silent about the Maduro regime.
It’s hard to tell. Rosselló's administration and supporters dismiss these and other questions as Maduro-funded propaganda. It is easier to paint critiques of #BarcoPuertoRico as a global leftist plot than to actually answer what is Puerto Rico’s role in Venezuela policy and why did it think such moves were wise.
So we will likely never know what the real motives were, but we can say this: Puerto Rico needs to step away from being a foreign player in the most important political story of the Western Hemisphere. Rosselló's reckless involvement could trigger an armed conflict that could have an immense impact for generations to come.
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| Check out this image of #Jupiter's south pole, as seen by the Juno spacecraft from an altitude of 52,000 kilometers. Learn more about how scientists captured this image, which was featured on the cover of our May 16, 2017 issue. https://fcld.ly/alagr6i #SpaceScienceSummerpic.twitter.com/QMM2UvV63g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Check out this image of #Jupiter's south pole, as seen by the Juno spacecraft from an altitude of 52,000 kilometers. Learn more about how scientists captured this image, which was featured on the cover of our May 16, 2017 issue. https://fcld.ly/alagr6i #SpaceScienceSummer pic.twitter.com/QMM2UvV63g
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| Junto a la gobernadora @wandavazquezg DTOP y ACT colocan la primera piedra de Abriendo Caminos en expreso Martínez Nadal. Proyecto rehabilitará y mejorará la carretera PR-20, con una inversión de $19.46 millones.pic.twitter.com/OOXix4c9YB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Junto a la gobernadora @wandavazquezg DTOP y ACT colocan la primera piedra de Abriendo Caminos en expreso Martínez Nadal. Proyecto rehabilitará y mejorará la carretera PR-20, con una inversión de $19.46 millones. pic.twitter.com/OOXix4c9YB
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| Happy #MondayMorning from this #Caribbean island. Guess where? http://bit.ly/357i9CV pic.twitter.com/745imDIk11 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Happy #MondayMorning from this #Caribbean island. Guess where? http://bit.ly/357i9CV pic.twitter.com/745imDIk11
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| TOMORROW: The U.S. Supreme Court will hear two major arguments about LGBTQ employment discrimination https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-take-gay-rights-daca-religious-freedom-upcoming-term-n1059776 … | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TOMORROW: The U.S. Supreme Court will hear two major arguments about LGBTQ employment discrimination https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-take-gay-rights-daca-religious-freedom-upcoming-term-n1059776 …
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| “There are thousands of migrants who are suffering because of Trump's ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy. They are being kidnapped, extorted and subjected to violence,” said @JulianCastro, who met with asylum seekers in Mexico. By @SuzGamboa https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/juli-n-castro-meet-mexico-asylum-seekers-focusing-lgbtq-disabled-n1063096 … | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
“There are thousands of migrants who are suffering because of Trump's ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy. They are being kidnapped, extorted and subjected to violence,” said @JulianCastro, who met with asylum seekers in Mexico. By @SuzGamboa https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/juli-n-castro-meet-mexico-asylum-seekers-focusing-lgbtq-disabled-n1063096 …
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| Pretty remarkable photo of @JulianCastro with LGBTQ and disabled asylum seekers by @mollyhf in this @latimes story https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-10-07/julian-castro-helps-lgbtq-migrants-trump-remain-in-mexico-plan-cross-border …pic.twitter.com/2Le1CFqxW0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pretty remarkable photo of @JulianCastro with LGBTQ and disabled asylum seekers by @mollyhf in this @latimes story https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-10-07/julian-castro-helps-lgbtq-migrants-trump-remain-in-mexico-plan-cross-border … pic.twitter.com/2Le1CFqxW0
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| La cofundadora del CPI, @omayasosa, presenta la historia de la organización como ejemplo de periodismo independiente en el @FestivalGabo, en Colombia. Fotografías: @joseorlandodr y @luisjovalentin #CPIFiscaliza #FestivalGabo #PuertoRicopic.twitter.com/tVOLPpryye | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
La cofundadora del CPI, @omayasosa, presenta la historia de la organización como ejemplo de periodismo independiente en el @FestivalGabo, en Colombia. Fotografías: @joseorlandodr y @luisjovalentin #CPIFiscaliza #FestivalGabo #PuertoRico pic.twitter.com/tVOLPpryye
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| Cyber risk should be a top priority for companies, says Marsh executive. They "are not...identifying, quantifying, mitigating, transferring and planning their response..." Marsh, Microsoft survey reveals approach to threats https://go.cb.pr/2M5WYbC pic.twitter.com/E2cnyrTDKz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cyber risk should be a top priority for companies, says Marsh executive. They "are not...identifying, quantifying, mitigating, transferring and planning their response..." Marsh, Microsoft survey reveals approach to threats https://go.cb.pr/2M5WYbC pic.twitter.com/E2cnyrTDKz
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Civil Rights Commission Investigates Prison Deaths.
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Coffee Seeds Never Came and Incentives were Cancelled.
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They Finally Identified the Terrorists.
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| Expansion of Child Tax Credit for Puerto Rico Under Discussion | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Americans who live in a state can receive a Child Tax Credit of as much as $2,000 for each of their children up to age 17. They receive smaller amounts for kids 17 and 18 and for college students up to age 24. If the family paid in less than the amount of their tax credit, they can still receive as much as $1400 from the federal government or each qualifying child.
In Puerto Rico, the rules are a bit different. The child tax credit kicks in only when a Puerto Rican taxpayer has a third child. There is no credit available for the first two children born in a family.
There is no Child Tax Credit available at all for Puerto Rican families with only one or two children. Coincidentally, Puerto Rico has the lowest birth rate in the United States, with just 1.3 children per woman.
Support for Child Tax Credit in Puerto Rico
In a recent meeting with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Governor Wanda Vazquez, Resident Commissioner Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon discussed the possibility of extending the Child Care Tax Credit to Puerto Rico.
Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ) have introduced the “Child Tax Credit Equity for Puerto Rico Act of 2019”, and Gonzalez-Colon introduced an identical House version with ten bipartisan cosponsors.
In June, comprehensive legislation passed by the House Ways and Means Committee to reduce poverty and provide an economic boost for middle-class families included an expansion of the Child Tax Credit for Puerto Rico and the four other U.S. territories.
Earlier this year, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) included a Puerto Rico CTC expansion in his popular Working Families Tax Relief Act.
In 2016, the bipartisan, bicameral Congressional Task Force on Economic Growth in Puerto Rico unanimously recommended extending the Child Tax Credit to Puerto Rico to combat child poverty and stimulate the economy.
It is estimated that the extension of the tax credit would benefit 355,000 families in Puerto Rico.
Some observers object that Puerto Rico taxpayers do not pay income taxes. However, the Child Tax Credit is refundable for stateside families that pay no income taxes.
The post Expansion of Child Tax Credit for Puerto Rico Under Discussion appeared first on Puerto Rico Report.
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| Democratic Party of Puerto Rico Calls for Statehood | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Democratic Party of Puerto Rico sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asking her to support statehood for Puerto Rico for the same reasons she supports statehood for Washington, D.C.
“We are grateful for your support,” the letter begins, citing the Speaker’s support for equal treatment of Puerto Rico under Medicaid and other federal programs. “But the truth remains, as long as Puerto Rico continues to be a territory and the fundamental issue of statehood is not addressed by Congress, U.S. citizens living in Puerto Rico will always be treated differently when invoking their rights as equal citizens under the law.”
The letter goes on to detail the basic inequality Puerto Rico experiences as a territory of the United States. Residents of Puerto Rico, even though they are U.S. citizens, cannot vote in presidential elections and do not have Senators or voting members of he House of Representatives.
“The fact is that the president and Congress approve laws and establish policies that affect the daily lives of the island residents without the consent of the governed.”
The writers remind Speaker Pelosi of the exemplary military service of citizens from Puerto Rico, recalling the death of Elis Barreto-Ortiz, one of hundreds of Puerto Rican soldiers who have given their lives for the United States without equal representation in American Democracy.
The letter continues with a reminder of fundamentals. “The 2016 Democratic Party platform states, ‘Puerto Rico should be able to vote for the people who make their laws, just as they should be treated equally’ and the belief that they ‘should determine their ultimate political status from permanent options that do not conflict with the Constitution, laws, and policies of the United States.’ The only way Puerto Rico can achieve equal treatment under U.S.laws and voting rights is by becoming a state.”
Reminder of statehood votes
The letter goes on to cite the pro-statehood votes of 2012 and 2017. The writers point out that the Democratic National Committee voted to support statehood for Puerto Rico in 2017. They remind Pelosi of the devastation of Hurricane Maria and the sluggish federal response. They also refer to the Gallup poll showing that 66% of Americans on the mainland support statehood for Puerto Rico.
“The experience of the past two years in relation to the federal response is further evidence of the neglect and discrimination allowed under our current undemocratic status,” the letter goes on.”For all these reasons and many more, the leadership of the Democratic Party of Puerto Rico supports the admission of Puerto Rico into the Union.”
The letter concludes with a call for Speaker Pelosi and the Democratic leadership in Washington to do what is right, noting that “the hopes and aspirations for equality of the people of Puerto Rico rest in the leadership and members of the Democratic Party in the United States Congress.”
 
The letter is signed by Charles Rodriguez, Johanne Velez, Maria “Mayita” Melendez, and Luis Davila-Permas.
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| Democrats Urge Pause in Debt Talks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eight Senate Democrats —including three running for president — and five House of Representatives Democrats have asked the PROMESA Financial Board (FOMB) to halt all Puerto Rico debt payments and negotiations until an independent investigation clears all Board Members of conflicts of interest.
The letter led by Senator Bernie Sanders (VT) and fomer Sanders campaign workers Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) also made a number of other demands for the Board to fulfill by October 7th.
The letter also called for an “end to Board control” over Puerto Rico’s economic decisions, saying that the territory “must no longer be treated as a colony.” “At a minimum,” it added, the recent changes in the insular government’s Executive branch “must not be exploited to strengthen the unelected FOMB’s power over the day-to-day lives of the people.”
Also challenged were the Board’s spending and alleged “internal mismanagement.”
Other senators signing the letter included Elizabeth Warren (MA), Jeffrey Merkley (OR), Edward Markey (MA), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Kirsten Gillibrand (NY), Cory Booker (NJ), and Robert Menendez (NJ). All except Merkley come from States with sizable populations of people of Puerto Rican origin.
The PROMESA Board hopes to complete a debt adjustment plan for the Government of Puerto Rico by the end of this month, although its deadlines for the plan have slipped.
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| New Census Data on Puerto Rico | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
New data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows real signs of recovery from Hurricane Maria, even though the news is not all positive.
Data from the 2017 and 2018 American Community Surveys (ACS) and Puerto Rico Community Surveys (PRCS) show that Puerto Rico’s poverty rate decreased by 1.3 percentage points, from 44.4% in 2017 to 43.1% in 2018.
The average poverty rate for the United States as a whole is 13.1%. The poorest state, Mississippi, has a poverty rate of 19.7%. So Puerto Rico continues to have a much higher rate of poverty than any of the States.
What’s more, the difference between the 2018 rate and the 2016 rate is not statistically significant. That means that it is possible that the difference between those two rates is just coincidence. The difference is not large enough to allow us to be sure that poverty has been reduced since 2016.
In other words, it is possible that 2017’s higher poverty level was a result of the 2017 destruction caused by Hurricane Maria, and the 2018 improvement is a movement back to normal.
Population continues to fall
Puerto Rico may be heading upwards economically after the 2017 hurricane season. The number of people leaving Puerto Rico, however, continues to grow. As the chart at the top of the page shows, the number of people moving from Puerto Rico to the States increased by 36.9% in 2018, compared with 2017. The total population of the territory decreased by 4.4% in 2018.
These numbers are statistically significant. Puerto Rico was already seeing a dwindling population, years before Hurricane Maria, but the rate of migration has increased.
A company called Terralytics used cell phone data from October 2017 to February 2018, when data on migration from Puerto Rico to the mainland was sketchy and numbers were speculative. Teralytics determined that 12% of the population left Puerto Rico, and half that number — 6% — returned.
In February, the number of people who returned to Puerto Rico was larger than the number who left. Terralytics data would predict a 6% loss in the sixth months they tracked the data, with hope of an increase in the net population after that.
The Census Bureau’s 4.4% is within the likely range.
Where are migrants going?
Those who have left Puerto Rico for the States are following different paths from earlier migrants. One third have moved to Florida, making the Sunshine State the State with the largest Puerto Rican population. This population change has affected the political landscape in this famously volatile swing State.
People moving to the South from Puerto Rico increased by 50% in 2018 compared with 2017. States like Georgia, South Carolina, and Texas are beginning to see significant Puerto Rican populations. The Northeast saw an increase of 30% and the Midwest saw the only drop — 14%.
But the biggest change was in the smallest sector of the state-ward bound: the West. Though fewer Puerto Ricans moved to the West than to any other region, the number doing so was nearly twice as large as in 2017.
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| Chairman Grassley Unsatisfied with CMS Response on Puerto Rico Medicaid | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) announced last week that he had received a response to a letter he and several members of the Committee wrote to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) last summer. He notes that he received “more questions than answers” from the department’s response.
“There are proposals on Capitol Hill to raise the federal matching rate significantly for Puerto Rico, but Congress must have a thorough and serious discussion before enacting such policies,” explained Grassley in his announcement last week. “It’s my goal to provide Medicaid beneficiaries the help they need while holding the government accountable as stewards of the program.”
The letter from Grassley and some colleagues to HHS focused
The Senate letter pointed out that Congress has provided temporary funding for Medicaid in Puerto Rico without creating any permanent solution to the problem of unequal funding.
“Unfortunately, Medicaid funding cliffs for Puerto Rico have recurred, and no permanent solution has been put in place,” the authors wrote. “Currently, Congress is again considering Medicaid funding for Puerto Rico. We are again confronting proposals for what amounts to another extension of boosted funding with no permanence or certainty and without any resolution of the Medicaid funding cliff.”
They also referred to political upheavals in Puerto Rico and accusations of corruption on the part of government officials, as well as failures in reporting.
The letter concluded with a list of questions. Grassley and his colleagues asked for specific figures on Medicaid spending since 2014, as well as information on oversight programs such as Payment Error Rate Measurement and Medicaid Eligibility Quality Control programs.
Response from CMS
Seema Verma, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), responded on behalf of HHS.
Verma’s letter explained that emergency disaster relief funding for Medicaid has caused funding for Puerto Rico in recent years to be higher than the 55% federal matching funds normally provided to Puerto Rico up to the territory’s funding cap.
The letter also informed Grassley and his colleagues that Puerto Rico has a special anti-fraud unit for Medicaid, and is therefore exempt from Payment Error Rate Measurement and Medicaid Eligibility Quality Control programs required of the States.
At the same time, Medicaid is working with Puerto Rico toward “more robust, timely, and accurate data” through Medicaid’s Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS). The letter specified that Puerto Rico has met the milestones required by this program, which is a work in progress for the agency.
“We are continuing to work with States and Puerto Rico to shift from simply collecting data to using advanced analytics and other innovative solutions to improve data and maximize the potential for program accountability and integrity purposes,” the letter stated.
The real funding match
Grassley expressed dissatisfaction with the response. “The statutory federal matching rate for Puerto Rico is 55 percent. However, the response letter from CMS shows that the effective matching rate is much higher. Letters and conversations with the Puerto Rican government have only mentioned the 55 percent rate,” Grassley said at his website. “If the rate is higher, Congress and taxpayers deserve to know why. Grassley intends to follow up with CMS on this and other issues.”
In fact, the actual matching rate over time is usually lower than 55% because of the funding cap. imposed on Puerto Rico’s Medicaid spending. When Medicaid expenses in the territory reach the funding cap, federal dollars stop. The territory must rely on its own resources until new federal funding is available. This is not the case for States. If their costs increase, their funding also increases.
Administrator Verma’s response noted that due to more recent federal reforms the effective matching rate by Puerto Rico for Medicaid spending was 62.2% in 2014 and slowly but steadily increased to 66.9% in 2017. In 2018, the federal government contributed 91.8% of Puerto Rico’s Medicaid costs.
Puerto Rico doesn’t cover all the health services that are required by states, including nursing home care, home health services, non-emergency medical transportation, and a panoply of children’s health benefits guaranteed under the Medicaid’s Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT) program.
In addition, despite extensive manufacturing of prescription drugs in Puerto Rico, Medicaid recipients in the U.S. territory do not have access to the same range of medications available in the states.
One result of Hurricane Maria and the months-long power outage that followed was that medical facilities in Puerto Rico had to pay for fuel for generators. Add the additional medical needs caused by the hurricane, the power outage, and other results of the hurricane, and it is clear that Puerto Rico’s needs for medical funds were higher than normal. Congress allocated funds for disaster relief which pushed the federal funds provided for Medicaid higher than normal.
Counting those additional funds, the quantity of federal funds provided went above 55% of the territory’s Medicaid costs. The matching rate has not in fact changed, though there is legislation in Congress which intends to increase the matching rate in the U.S. territories to match those in the States. States receive as much as 83% in matching funds, with no cap.
In response to the CMS letter, Chairman Grassley stated that Congress and taxpayers deserve to know why Puerto Rico’s matching rate had effectively changed. He further noted that he intends to follow up with CMS on this and other issues.
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Census data released last Thursday confirms that Puerto Rico is still losing residents to the States, but there have been some changes in Puerto Rican populations in the various States.
New York had the highest total of residents identifying as Puerto Rican for decades, but Florida now has edged out New York. Florida has 1,187,437 Puerto Rican residents now, compared with 1,070,071 in New York. No other State has as many as one million Puerto Rican residents.
The two top States have similar proportions of Puerto Rican residents: 5.6% in Florida and 5.5% in New York. Puerto Ricans represent 21.3% of all Florida’s Hispanic residents, but 28.5% of New York’s Hispanic population.
The next five States by total Puerto Rican population:
The State with the smallest Puerto Rican population? Wyoming has just 1,187 Puerto Ricans.
Percentage of population
The two States with the largest numbers of residents from Puerto Rico are not the States with the highest percentage of Puerto Rican residents.
That honor goes to Connecticut, with 8.3% Puerto Ricans in the State population overall. Florida is next with 5.6%, and New York and New Jersey are tied at 5.5%.
Rhode Island has 5.1% and Massachusetts has 4.8%, but the next in line is a surprise: Idaho, at 4.2%.
Several States come in at .2%, the smallest proportion:
Percentage of Hispanic population
For the United States as a whole, the largest group within those who consider themselves Hispanic is composed of people of Mexican heritage.
Within the Hispanic population of each State, the largest proportion of Puerto Ricans lives in Connecticut, where 50.5% of Hispanics are Puerto Rican, and in Pennsylvania, where 49% of the Hispanic population is Puerto Rican. Massachusetts has 38.9% and New Hampshire 38.4% Puerto Ricans within their Hispanic communities.
The figure is 32.3% in Rhode Island, 30.1% in Ohio, and 28.5% in New York.
The smallest showings are in the states with strong historic connections to Mexico, such as New Mexico, (.9%), California (1.5%), and Texas (1.9%).
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 This guy looks too complex, too smart, too ambitious, and too psychopathic – for the price of his suit, whatever meaning you want to put into it. It means that he is masking, plays (but all of them are bad actors, and it shows), lies, hides (his wealth, first of all), is perverse; loves money and power above all. He also appears to be very controlling, deeply paranoid (suspicious about everything), apprehensive, defensive.But overall, he is hard to read. As I posted earlier, he fits the concept of the proverbial onion: many masking and protective layers but no substance and no essence inside, except for money and power, his psychological drivers.What you, or rather I, see in the depth of his eyes, is THE BEAST. The same naked, fearless, merciless, low, playful, mysterious, animalistic, Hebrew-Abwehr mix, Mafia Beast, that you can see in many of the faces of their leaders (and he would be in the first row, definitely) but extremely and uniquely well masked. In my humble opinion.
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