Prof. Julian Go on Puerto Rico Debt Crisis in BU Today
Following a June announcement by governor of Puerto Rico that the commonwealth could not pay its $72 billion debts, the island’s Public Finance Corporation defaulted on most of its debt in August. With a 12.4% unemployment rate, a housing bust, drought, and a mass exodus tens of thousands of middle-class workers to the United States […]
Dr. Patricia Rieker Interviewed on Childhood Poverty
Professor Patricia Rieker was interviewed as an expert to chime in on the effects of poverty on young people as a part of WalletHub.com’s recent study, “2015’s Best and Worst States for Underprivileged Children.” Described as a comparison of “the welfare of young people within the 50 states and the District of Columbia to underscore the […]