Pursuant to the recently enacted Act No. 82 of August 8, 2023, employers in Puerto Rico must consider an informal caregiver’s request for a work-schedule change without meeting some of.
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But Pierluisi’s decision registered as more effectual with activists.
“For us, it’s a victory because the island has already been requesting for two years the declaration of a state of emergency and, well, it was finally decreed the way it had to be done: with an executive order that includes specific issues to address the violence towards women in Puerto Rico,” Amárilis Pagán, the director of the activist group Proyecto Matria, said in a statement to reporters.
Pagán clarified that she and other members of Proyecto Matria met at La Fortaleza, which serves as the residence of the governor, last Friday to present guidelines for the Pierluisi to implement that can effectively address femicide on the island.
About one-third of adult residents of Puerto Rico experience food insecurity.
Puerto Rico’s food assistance program, the Nutrition Assistance Program (NAP, or PAN for its Spanish acronym) helps residents of Puerto Rico afford a basic diet. This program is especially important given high levels of poverty and hardship: over two-fifths of all residents of Puerto Rico (43 percent) and
over half of children in Puerto Rico (57 percent) lived in poverty in 2018, according to the most recent Census Bureau data.
[1] About one-third of adult residents of Puerto Rico experience food insecurity, which is a lack of consistent access to adequate food, a recent study found. People with low incomes (under $25,000 annually) were more than three times as likely to experience food insecurity than households with higher incomes.