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Lauren Lluveras

Lauren Lluveras is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis, University of Texas at Austin

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Hurricane Maria did so much damage to Puerto Rico’s economy that nearly 300,000 more Puerto Ricans became poor enough to be eligible for its nutrition assistance. (Photo: Chris Grogan/Air Force Magazine/Flickr)

A Political Stalemate Over Puerto Rican Aid Is Leaving All US Disaster Funding in Limbo

Within two weeks of that storm, which killed an estimated 3,000 people, Trump accused Puerto Ricans in a series of tweets of wanting "everything to be done for them."

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