TRUMP failing Puerto Rico again

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The dumbest among us chuckle and point fingers at Venezuela and the supposed ills of socialism, while this is happening in America:

From homeless people and families living in middle-class neighborhoods to those who are unemployed or on food stamps, over 2,000 families from different walks of life are showing up at the town of Loíza every other Saturday to pick up grocery boxes.

About one-third of adults reported facing difficulties affording adequate nutrition in 2015, according to the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics.

a looming funding cliff that stands to eliminate or reduce food assistance to 1.5 million Puerto Ricans, including over 300,000 children, according to an analysis from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan research and policy institute.

The current funding cliff stands to have “more serious repercussions” because over 100,000 people more than last year enrolled in the program, said Balmaceda.

Congress excluded Puerto Rico from the Pandemic EBT program in March, which provides additional food aid to children who are missing free or reduced-price meals due to school closures. This is leaving hundreds of thousands of Puerto Rican public school students without assistance.

Preliminary figures from Puerto Rico’s Labor Department put the island’s unemployment rate post-coronavirus at around 31 percent.
Other experts and economists such as José Caraballo-Cueto estimate the unemployment rate could be as high as 46 percent.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/cor ... l-n1241422