Sentences with phrase «puerto ricans»

All proceeds from the fundraising initiative will go directly to organizations benefiting Puerto Ricans impacted by the devastation...

The company is a revival of a brand known to Puerto Ricans for more than 70 years, and it recently re-launched its namesake brand to supermarkets after a hiatus of more than 10 years.

Indeed, the eatery, which specializes in all - day breakfast, grilled sandwiches and premium espresso, is recognized as one of the most well - known brands among Puerto Ricans.

Months after the storm, the Puerto Ricans that have stayed are still struggling to find clean, potable water — and that's where Flair Flexible Packaging and Sawyer Products have entered the picture.

Italians, Poles, Irish, Puerto Ricans and Indians are adopting the activist tactics and strategies of blacks and the research methods of the Jews.

In a recent interview, Santiago said he was «not a religious person,» but felt an obligation to depict Clemente accurately: «I know as a society Puerto Ricans are very religious... mostly Catholic Christians.

People in New York didn't even realise that the Puerto Ricans were American citizens, but they were the newest immigrants and so they were to blame for everything.

About half of Puerto Ricans go to church at least once a week, according to the Pew Research Center.

Again, a prejudiced society which expects American Indians to be lazy and dishonest, Mexicans or Puerto Ricans to be vicious and delinquent, and Orientals to be subversive — in every case as a natural racial trait — is likely to adopt attitudes and policies toward these people which will lead them to some extent to respond accordingly.

In response, FEMA says that Tribute Contracting's failure to delivery didn't negatively affect any Puerto Ricans and that they had other suppliers that gave them «ample» food and water.

Two months after Hurricane Maria devastated the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is working to rescue stranded Puerto Ricans and bring them to the...

Although they are American citizens, many Puerto Ricans are unable to collect federal emergency aid because homes on the island are sometimes built without official deeds.

International Red Cross workers are restoring connectivity for people impacted by the hurricane and for humanitarian workers on the ground, installing satellites that are enabling Puerto Ricans to reconnect with family members, charge their phones and access information.

More than 40 % of Puerto Ricans live below the poverty line, and the unemployment rate is well into the double digits, according to the New York Times.

Puerto Ricans In Action values include service to our community.

Like other Puerto Ricans far from home, Alanna Farrell Colon, a Johns Hopkins University sophomore, felt helpless when Hurricane Maria hit the island.

With FEMA emergency assistance coming to an end, Puerto Ricans need help, now perhaps more so than ever.

(Currently, unlike in the mainland, Puerto Ricans» health care payments are capped.)

«We're talking about over 40 % poverty level in Puerto Rico, and you also have a 12 % unemployment rate, and then you have on top of that — mainly because of those things — a large exodus of Puerto Ricans.»

There are some practical reasons for this, but the main reason is that Puerto Ricans have been Americans for a long time and just like other Americans feel a strong connection to their country.

(Puerto Ricans are, after all, US citizens.)

Cooking With Gabby has partnered with Puerto Ricans in Action for hurricane relief efforts in Puerto Rico.

Currently nearly the entire island, home to 3.4 million Puerto Ricans, is without power; cracked dams are threatening to flood entire communities; and the island's sole congressperson in the US House, Rep. Jenniffer Gonzalez - Colon, said that, «This is not the same island,» as it was before the storm.

Puerto Ricans In Action is committed to providing family events for our community.

The FEMA disaster fund also provides grants to Puerto Ricans to fix their homes and businesses.

Puerto Ricans in Action's community outreach is focused on raising awareness about Puerto Rico, the effects of Hurricane Maria, which hit on September 20, 2017, and the ways everyone can help.

Most Puerto Ricans have friends and family members living on the US mainland, and many people go back and forth.

Since 2016, the Commonwealth government has been forced to shut down 179 primary and secondary schools, increase the sales tax to 11.5 %, and «sharply [raise] electricity and water rates,» while calling for a $ 450 million cut to the island's public university — all policies that hurt the nearly half of Puerto Ricans living below the poverty line.

Exacerbated by this, young Puerto Ricans faced with limited job prospects have left the island in droves to come to the mainland, where they can live and work without having to obtain a visa.

I stand, with millions of fellow US Citizens - Puerto Ricans, with Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello in the fight to...

The Brookings Institution has also noted that Puerto Rico doing so would make Puerto Ricans eligible for the federal earned income tax credit, which they currently are not.

The big problem with this idea is that Puerto Ricans don't want to be independent.

Puerto Ricans In Action would like to invite their extended family to join us at a fun day at the beach.

The federal government could also begin requiring Puerto Ricans to pay federal income taxes; that may sound bad, but it would ultimately help the island by allowing them to be paid in full for Medicaid.

Young Puerto Ricans, who struggled to find jobs, look for work on the US mainland (Puerto Ricans are US citizens).

It's been six months since Hurricane Maria hit the island, and reports estimate that 100,000 Puerto Ricans are still without power — which means that American citizens are still dying and desperate for help.

Puerto Ricans are US citizens, part of the US labor market, and can take jobs and move wherever they want.

All the while, Puerto Ricans don't have the luxury of waiting for the grid of the future, so renewable energy entrepreneurs must compete against fossil fuel generators.

And the desperate pleas for help that continued Friday from Cruz, as well as other Puerto Ricans in more isolated parts of the country, suggest that far more is needed from the Trump administration's response to the unfolding humanitarian crisis.

Close to three months after Hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico, many Puerto Ricans are struggling for survival and fighting to remain, reclaim, and rebuild.

It has been nearly a week since the storm hit, and what are Puerto Ricans hearing from President Donald Trump?

Now, Puerto Ricans on the island and U.S. mainland are feeling angry and the lack of progress and they are organizing to demand help for Puerto Rico.

Puerto Ricans can not vote for the U.S. president when they live in the territory, but they can when they reside in one of the 50 U.S. states or the District of Columbia.

The governor of Puerto Rico is kicking off a civic organization in Orlando on Tuesday, an initiative he hopes will mobilize Puerto Ricans in the region to become politically active.

Perhaps Puerto Ricans just haven't been showing up at his «Make America Great Again» rallies in sufficient number.

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El Puente, a Latino organization based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that focuses on social justice, education and climate change issues, has raised enough money to purchase thousands of lanterns — which Puerto Ricans on the island view as a glimmer of hope to help guide them through the dark.

The estimated turnaround time for the recovery of the island's electrical grid is four months; a timeframe that, top bank officials say, will prompt ordinary Puerto Ricans to flee for the mainland.

The estimated turnaround time for the recovery of the island's electrical grid is four months; a timeframe that, top bank officials say, will prompt ordinary Puerto Ricans to

After suffering widespread power outages thanks to Irma, 1 million Puerto Ricans were left without electricity.