Puerto Rico voters chose statehood in status votes held in 2012, 2017, 2020, and 2024 — every status vote in this century. Yet we continue to see claims that independence is gaining support and even ...

Angie Nixon,  a Florida Democratic candidate for a Senate seat, has two political stats coming to Kissimmee to campaign for her. Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Nydia Velazquez (D-NY) will ...

Nutrition assistance inequity can lead to a benefit cliff in Puerto Rico. The numbers push Puerto Ricans into the shadow ...

There is no single path to statehood. Would-be states have varied widely in their paths in pursuing statehood, the amount of time it took to achieve statehood, and the level of public support for ...

Recent estimates say that there are about 5.8 million Puerto Ricans living in the States, compared with 3.2 million on the Island. Puerto Ricans are not evenly distributed across the nation, however.

New York City is the city with the largest stateside Puerto Rican population, but Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, comes in second with 140,000 Puerto Rican residents. That’s about 15% of the total ...

The vote, giving voters a choice among the viable non-colonial options for Puerto Rico’s political status, is the seventh political status vote in the history of Puerto Rico. Statehood gained the ...

In the 20th century, Operation Bootstrap helped change Puerto Rico’s economy from an agricultural base to an industrial one. The initiative was a series of federal economic reforms, launched in the ...

Former Vice President Kamala Harris spoke at the National Bar Association annual convention in Nashville last month, discussing voting rights and other topics with the organization’s president, Ashley ...

Puerto Rico Senate Bill 504 made headlines as it passed into law in the closing days of 2025 — especially in social media and blog posts from right to life groups. The new law is being hailed as “one ...

English has been spoken in Puerto Rico for more than a century. If Puerto Rico becomes a state, it will not have the largest number of speakers of Spanish among the States. However, it will probably ...

As recently as 2017, a national survey found that most Americans didn’t know that Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens. That changed when Hurricane Maria propelled Puerto Rico into the headlines. Still, ...