Island Paradox: Puerto Rico in the 1990s

摘要: The information presented in this volume is based largely on U.S. census data primarily from the 1970 1980 and 1990 censuses of population housing....[It] focuses demographic social changes that occurred Puerto Rico during decade 1980s early 1990s when sustained decline a series socioeconomic indicators reached alarming levels. A disturbing rise unemployment rate high poverty rates inequities sharp increase substance abuse crime were characteristics period. These transformations their policy implications can only be understood historical context. There are chapters growth migration between United States immigration born outside Rican States. (EXCERPT)