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PR’s territorial status is at the center of its challenges
Hurricane Maria exacerbated many of the difficulties that Puerto Rico was already facing, including a long-running debt crisis, unemployment and housing shortage. NewsHour Weekend’s Ivette Feliciano, who has been reporting on Puerto Rico, joins Hari Sreenivasan to explain why many of those issues are rooted in the island’s status as a U.S. territory and what that means for its future.
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