Puerto Ricans leaving island for U.S. in record numbers

[nitpicker]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/02/americas/puerto-rico-exodus/index.html

Puerto Ricans leaving island for U.S. in record numbers

By Jeffrey Acevedo, CNN

Updated 3:16 AM ET, Mon May 2, 2016

(CNN) — Puerto Ricans are leaving the island for the mainland United States at a historic rate. The commonwealth's Institute of Statistics revealed Sunday the results of its analysis on 2014 migration, which found that Puerto Rico lost almost 2% of its population that year.

About 84,000 people moved from Puerto Rico to the United States in 2014, according to the report, while only 20,000 moved back to the island, resulting in a net migration of 1.8%. On average, 230 people left per day -- enough to fill two daily flights out of the island. The result is the highest net migration recorded in the past decade, the Institute said.

"The economic factor is the main factor pushing people towards leaving Puerto Rico," demographer Raul Figueroa, who works as an independent consultant, told CNN. Unemployment, the lack of opportunities, especially for the youth, and quality of life are major factors, he said. In the 1950s, most Puerto Ricans moved to New York, Figueroa said, but "Florida has been the main destination in the last 10 years."
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Between 2010 and 2014 more people moved from the island to the United States than in the first half of the 1950s, when the net migration was estimated at 237,000, according to the organization. In the first half of the current decade, 263,000 people flew to the United States and didn't return. These numbers, said Marazzi-Santiago, point to what may be known by the end of the decade as "the greatest exodus in Puerto Rico's history."
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[MADem]

1. A hundred miles across.

[Xipe Totec]

2. Lamento Borincano

Oh Borinquen la tierra del Edén,
la que al cantar, el gran Gauthier,
llamo la perla de los mares,
ahora que tú te mueres con tus pesares,
déjame que te cante yo también,
Borinquen de mi amor.

[HereSince1628]

3. I would think that the austerity demanded to protect financiers will make that worse. n/t

[Eleanors38]

4. The Puerto Rican vote in Central Florida delivered that state to Obama twice.

[GOLGO 13]

5. Family is telling me entire schools are closing done due to teachers fleeing.

They're hearing things like a Doctor a day leaves the island. People are growing more veggies in their back yards. The price of cattle feed is becoming a BIG concern.

The riots are going to be ugly.

[KamaAina]

6. Stuff like that doesn't happen in 'Murka!