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The highest rates of childhood poverty in the United States are in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, where half of all children under age 5 live below the poverty line.  The Territories also share America’s highest unemployment rates, facing deficits so large that Puerto Rico alone has laid off at least 17,000 public employees.  Considering the island’s population of 4 million, that’s the equivalent of giving a pink slip to everybody in Dallas.  

If there was ever any doubt about our allegations around real job creation in the USVI generated by the Captain Morgan Rum(Diageo) federal funds giveaway, read the article below from www.cruciansinfocus.org

http://cruciansinfocus.com/2010/06/02/diageos-use-of-outside-employees-not-in-violation-of-contract-with-dejongh-administration/

PUERTO RICO, VIRGIN ISLANDS GO HEAD TO HEAD ON RUM, FUELING TENSIONS IN CONGRESS

BY DAN EGGEN

It's the preferred drink of Caribbean tourists and swashbuckling pirates alike, and now it's at the heart of a nasty political dispute: The rum wars have come to Washington.

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Yesterday afternoon Mayor Bloomberg opened the doors once again of Gracie Mansion to kick start the festivities around the largest parade in the nation, the National Puerto Rican Day Parade.

The Puerto Rican communities on the mainland and the one on Island have learned to set their differences aside, at least for a week, in order to celebrate our cultural pride and honor our leaders in front of a national audience.