Will Puerto Ricans Return Home After Hurricane María?

Alexis R. Santos-Lozada, The Conversation, Salon: Politics
Wed, 11/22/2017 - 1:58am

The remnants of a destroyed home stand more than two weeks after Hurricane Maria hit the island on October 6, 2017. (Credit: Getty/Mario Tama) Even before this year’s devastating hurricane season, the team of demographers I work with at Penn State and the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics had predicted that the population of Puerto Rico would decline over the next few decades.

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