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How We Screwed Over Puerto Rico
On today's Gist, thick-as-bricks Lego thieves come a-tumbling down.
Hurricane recovery has been a disaster in Puerto Rico. NPR's Laura Sullivan wanted to know why. So she found documents revealing a FEMA in shambles. She traced Puerto Rico's economic troubles back to a 1996 tax vote. And she explains how the island's remaining wealth was wiped out by years of shady municipal debt deals. Sullivan's report for NPR and Frontline is called "Blackout in Puerto Rico." You should really watch it.
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On today's Gist, thick-as-bricks Lego thieves come a-tumbling down.
Hurricane recovery has been a disaster in Puerto Rico. NPR's Laura Sullivan wanted to know why. So she found documents revealing a FEMA in shambles. She traced Puerto Rico's economic troubles back to a 1996 tax vote. And she explains how the island's remaining wealth was wiped out by years of shady municipal debt deals. Sullivan's report for NPR and Frontline is called "Blackout in Puerto Rico." You should really watch it.
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