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Why Is Puerto Rico Billions of Dollars in Debt? Puerto Rico is drowning is $72 billion in government debt. Latino USA unpacks how the island's fiscal crisis came to be, with help from Robert Smith of NPR's Planet Money.

Why Is Puerto Rico Billions of Dollars in Debt?

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Why Is Puerto Rico Billions of Dollars in Debt?

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Puerto Rico is drowning is $72 billion in government debt. Latino USA unpacks how the island's fiscal crisis came to be, with help from Robert Smith of NPR's Planet Money.

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