My heart goes out to Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria (with donation links

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My buddy Jared was just interviewed at his medical manufacturing firm, this is the reality for companies on the island:

By the time Haley and some of his employees got back days after the storm, heat and humidity had damaged much of his equipment. He says: "We have brand-new, $500,000 pieces of equipment that now look like they're 100 years old. Everything rusted on them."

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/11/27/566771228/puerto-ricos-medical-manufacturers-worry-federal-tax-plan-could-kill-storm-recov

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Cuomo urges feds to pass $94B aid package for Puerto Rico

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7 Things About Life in Puerto Rico with No Electricity

Are you sick of hearing about Puerto Rico? Me too.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/08/us/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-death-toll.html

https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/gop-power-play-in-hurricane-ravaged-puerto-rico

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-07/puerto-rico-s-slow-hurricane-recovery-is-suffocating-small-business

http://national-puerto-rican-agenda.rallycongress.net/ctas/tell-president-trump-congress-to-do-right-by-puerto

The National Puerto Rican Agenda has launched a national letter drive to ask President Trump and Congress to immediately take constructive measures that will impact the lives of 3.4 million American citizens in Puerto Rico and their 5.5 million Puerto Rican relatives living in the 50 states. Please join us in our campaign to save Puerto Rico by sending the following letter which will be automatically addressed to the President and your Congressional delegation.

I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday, please remember your fellow Americans.

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https://www.kff.org/report-section/voices-from-puerto-rico-reflections-two-months-after-maria-report-issue-brief/

https://www.bondbuyer.com/opinion/wall-streets-war-on-puerto-rico

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/puerto-rico-life-without-power/

Puerto Rico’s apagón, or “super blackout,” is the longest and largest major power outage in modern U.S. history. Without electricity, there is no reliable source of clean water. School is out, indefinitely. Health care is fraught. Small businesses are faltering. The tasks of daily life are both exhausting and dangerous. There is nothing to do but wait, and no one can say when the lights will come back on.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-is-what-puerto-ricans-need-from-the-government-right-now/2017/12/13/fc03ccca-dfb3-11e7-8679-a9728984779c_story.html

Puerto Rico needs a lifeline that only Congress and the Trump administration can provide. The list of needed actions is short, straightforward and agreed upon by Puerto Ricans of all political stripes. First, drop the crippling 20 percent excise tax on Puerto Rican products. This is an easy one given that the tax doesn’t exist yet. It can simply be removed from the tax-reform bill right now being finalized in House-Senate conference negotiations.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-un-puerto-rico-trip-20171211-story.html

Alston told The Associated Press that there is a disproportionate number of Puerto Ricans living in poverty and that he's trying to assess, among other things, the effectiveness of measures taken by the federal government after the storm hit on Sept. 20, killing dozens of people and destroying tens of thousands of homes. Ten of the island's 78 municipalities are still without power, and thousands of businesses remain closed. "I've visited areas that are still completely without power. I've seen areas that have lots of damage that hasn't been removed, and that must be very distressing after three months," he said.

https://catapult.co/stories/island-of-debris-the-unofficial-toll-of-hurricane-maria

I believe it is important to say it; I think it is necessary to write it: This happened, and it happened to us. To all of us. This wasn’t something that happened to a faraway country on the other side of the world, it didn’t happen to one of the little islands that hurricanes have used as punching bags for the last decade. This happened to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. It happened to Borinquen, our blessed island. An island that now looks as if it was burned down. It doesn’t look like she was undressed by the winds, it looks like they set her on fire and she was consumed to her very bones.
It feels and it looks like what it actually is: a minefield composed of the irritability and despair of everyone around you, maybe because the generator ran out of diesel, or because they don’t have insulin for their old man or enough diapers for the latest addition to the family who has lived through two Category 5 hurricanes in his first month of life. The whole map is a blank canvas for anxiety. What is left is a space to develop paranoias, to imagine the most catastrophic scenarios when you can’t communicate with someone. And the worst part is that in this specific reality of broken, interrupted, or inexistent communications, every fatalist panorama sounds logical and sadly possible.

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