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Old 11-02-2014, 01:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Wandatime View Post
Here is a link to a good article about why Puerto Ricans are leaving the island:

Plagued By Violence, Bad Economy, Puerto Rico Rings In 2014 With Bang; 13 Murders In 5 Days | Fox News Latino
I looked at the link ... how depressing.

Here's an excerpt that jumped out:

"Many economic experts worry that Puerto Rico could default on its debt, which in turn might engulf the island in even more crime as money and jobs become scarcer.

“Not only is there a debt problem, but there’s a deep structural problem,” Juan Carlos Hidalgo, a Latin America policy analyst at the Cato Institute told Fox News Latino in December. “Puerto Rico has one of the lowest labor participation rates in the world. Only about 40 percent of the working age population is in the labor force.”

The bigger question becomes ... how did PR evolve to this dysfunctional status? Another question is ... why do societies never seem to learn that the path to wealth is not thru state-focused dependence?