Puerto Rico’s block grant food assistance program already doesn’t stretch enough to meet the needs of its recipients. Congress just froze one way to boost it.

Across the archipelago, community leaders and academic partners are collaborating to bridge funding gaps and ensure ...

Six days after Maria struck the island, conditions in Puerto Rico remain dire, with 3.4 million people virtually without electrical power and short of food and water.

Puerto Rico is already reeling under a $72 billion (53.03 billion pounds) debt load it cannot pay. Earlier this year, it filed the biggest government bankruptcy in U.S. history, suffering from ...

Five days after the Category 4 storm slammed into Puerto Rico, many of the more than 3.4 million U.S. citizens in the territory were still without adequate food, water and fuel.