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Prison inmates are picking fruits and vegetables at a rate not seen since Jim Crow.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Tuesday ended the most popular forms of U.S. travel to Cuba, banning cruise ships and a heavily used category of educational travel in an attempt to cut off cash to the island’s communist government.

As a scholar who studies trade policy, I have a hard time agreeing with the president’s strategy that tariffs can be used as a stick to pressure another country to do whatever he wants.

It comes as no surprise that Walmart is once again under fire for the treatment of employees. This week, all eyes were on Walmart’s annual shareholder meeting, where advocacy groups took the fight to the executives to advocate for higher wages and also change policies regarding sexual harassment. Adriana Bautista, 35, has been working for […]

Hundreds of documents obtained by the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo show the obstacles the government faces to achieve projected savings.

In total, approximately 95% of the island is considered a Qualified Opportunity Zone under federal parameters.

“When you think about a place like New York City or really any city, transit and traffic and the people who get you from point A to point B, they’re like the veins of the city,” filmmaker Rebecca Blandón tells Latino Rebels.

During the decade leading up to 2016, the city’s foreign-born population had roughly doubled to about 7,000, making it home to one of the nation’s fastest-growing immigrant communities.

Why is a bankrupt Puerto Rico spending more than a billion dollars on expert advice?

The harsh new sanctions reverse “the disastrous Obama-era policies, and finally end the glamorization of socialism and communism,” national security adviser John Bolton said.

President Trump’s job approval dips to 37 percent.

HUD Spokesman Darryl Madden told the CPI that he could not offer more details because the process has just begun.

Puerto Rican artists and scholars Dr. Frances Negrón-Muntaner and Sarabel Santos Negrón launched the project in early February to research what Puerto Ricans value the most and how the economy can respond to their needs of people on the island.

Groups rallied as part of day of action asking for elimination of $72 billion public debt.

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“The fact that almost the entire island of Puerto Rico is an Opportunity Zone, is a blessing, but at the same time it’s a complication,” Manuel López-Zambrana said.

House Speaker Méndez says local legislation to enable the federal tax exemption program on the island will likely be approved, after being on conference committee since November.

This doesn’t mean that the case will go to SCOTUS.

Refineries located along the U.S. Gulf Coast in Louisiana and Texas were just about Venezuela’s last source of hard currency.

“The Board has been tangled in conflicts of interests, and its wealthy members have no grasp of the realities faced by working families in Puerto Rico.”

Since the deal was announced, New Yorkers decisions varied, with many strongly against the company’s move to Queens.