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.

With the COVID-19 pandemic, the phone at the Food Bank of Puerto Rico hasn't stop ringing. The food organization's president, Denise Santos, says that ever since the island went into lockdown in ...

Of Hispanic subgroups, households of Puerto Rican descent living in the United States had the highest food insecurity rate – 25.3 percent. The rate for families of Cuban origin was 12.1 percent. Other ...

Food prices in Puerto Rico are about 18 percent higher than they would be on the mainland, according to the island’s Institute of Statistics. Supporting local farmers can reduce food insecurity ...

According to a George Washington Survey, 40% of Puerto Ricans reported food insecurity. Santos, and others across Puerto Rico, want to battle food scarcity with the territory growing its own food.

Food scarcity is an ongoing problem for Puerto Rico. The territory imports 85 percent of all its food. With the recent natural disasters, and the pandemic, the territory is exploring ways to have ...

Puerto Rico imports 85 percent of its food, which makes it expensive. The COVID-19 pandemic has made the situation even more worrisome as people lose their jobs and income, making expensive food even ...

More than 80 percent of Puerto Rico’s food is imported, so when a major storm hits, it can delay shipments from the mainland. Residents are left with half-empty shelves at the store.

The food insecurity rate in Puerto Rico is triple that of the mainland — and that was before the hurricane, according to the 2017 American Community Survey of the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Trump administration has not sent $600 million in emergency food stamp aid to Puerto Rico two weeks after President Donald Trump approved the funds, and the US territory does not expect to ...

Six months into the coronavirus pandemic, Modesta Irizarry has seen the growing toll of food insecurity across communities in Puerto Rico. From homeless people and families living in middle-class ...