As Puerto Rico enters the second half of 2025, a new report from NielsenIQ highlights growing financial pressure on local ...

Food insecurity in Puerto Rico has been a longstanding problem since the island embarked on the largest municipal bankruptcy proceeding in U.S. history less than a decade ago.

In Puerto Rico, Activists Transform Abandoned Land To Build Food Sovereignty. ... where most of the food is imported and more than 40% of the population is below federal poverty levels and experience ...

Puerto Rico imports approximately 85 percent of its food supply, leaving residents vulnerable to food insecurity in the event of shipping disruptions and damaged ports.

Puerto Rico Has a Big-Pharma Problem ... Rico communities, where it’s deeply needed—over 43 percent of the population lives in poverty and one-third are food insecure.

After years of destructive weather that have disrupted Puerto Rico’s food supplies, new visions of local agriculture are taking root. Seventh graders plowing land in Ciales that they will later ...

Nearly 3 out of 4 young adults in Puerto Rico might not have ideal cardiovascular health due to lifestyle behaviors, new ...

The Caribbean island’s cuisine combines African, Indigenous and Spanish influences to create dishes of distinction.

A new study is shedding light on the financial challenges people in Puerto Rico face as a result of the economic turmoil they have endured since the Great Recession.

The findings are consistent with "well-known characteristics” of Puerto Rico's economy, such as limited job opportunities, stagnant wages and income disparities, researchers say.