PRI Puerto Ricans are troubled by Congress’ plan to sort out their island’s debt “Puerto Rico has lost half of its manufacturing jobs. Just gone” said Amílcar Barreto, a political scientist at Boston’s Northeastern University who researches nationalism and ethnic politics, largely focusing on Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico has actually lost slightly more than half of its manufacturing base since 1996,nearly 100,000 jobs. The island has suffered a decade of economic stagnation […]