Puerto Ricans Fear Troubled Economy Will Inflict Real Pain

Puerto Ricans Fear Troubled Economy Will Inflict Real Pain

By Greg Allen

Officials avoided a default, paying hundreds of millions of dollars in debt payments. With a stagnant economy, more than $72 billion in debt and little cash, the U.S. territory is in economic trouble.

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