Funded in Part By The Charles H. Revson Foundation, NPR Reports on Puerto Rico’s Financial Storm
Puerto Ricans are still rebuilding after Hurricane María devastated the island and its infrastructure last September. Since then, most of the focus has been on the effects of the Hurricane. Nonetheless, in some ways, the bigger story when it comes to Puerto Rico’s future is the island’s economic crisis.
In part one of a two-part series produced in collaboration with WNYC, business reporter Jane Sasseen looks at how Puerto Rico became mired in billions of dollars worth of debt, how it’s affecting Puerto Ricans today, and what the commonwealth is doing to try to dig itself out of a bankruptcy so big and so sprawling that it makes other historic bankruptcies, like Detroit’s, look small by comparison...