Six on (still!) the Shonda in Puerto Rico: Hurricane Maria Death Toll Could Exceed 4,000, 'Exodus' from Puerto Rico: A visual
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"Those conditions, he said, made clearer why the government’s official death count was incomplete. “Even if they were really doing a good job, it was really hard unless you did something like we did — go talk to people on the ground,” he said. People, he added, “died alone in their houses. Nobody went there. Some of them were covered by a landslide, and months after they’ve not recovered the bodies.”
Notably, abnormally high death rates continued at least through the end of December. “They didn’t show any sign of coming down in the several months following the hurricane that we were looking at,” said Caroline Buckee, an associate professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and the study’s other senior author."
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US Agency Plans to Cutback Puerto Rico's Telecom Program for Low-Income Communities
As Puerto Rico continues to struggle in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma and Maria, and the two most recent massive power blackouts in April, one of which led to the island's blackout, the Federal Communications Commission, FCC has proposed measures which could disconnect over 369,000 Lifeline customers in Puerto Rico.
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Created in 1985 during the Reagan administration, the Lifeline program is the only federal program that helps connect poor and marginalized communities to telecommunication services. The program helps nearly 13 million people access affordable broadband and voice by providing a modest subsidy of US$9.25 a month to help ease the otherwise costly communications for individuals and families living on the margins.
"With the 2018 hurricane season around the corner, the last thing residents of Puerto Rico and other hurricane-ravaged areas need, are measures that would disconnect them from lifesaving networks," Carmen Scutaro, the vice president of Policy and General Counsel of the National Hispanic Media Coalition and Gloria Tristani, a former commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, pointed out according to the Hill.
As Puerto Rico continues to struggle in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma and Maria, and the two most recent massive power blackouts in April, one of which led to the island's blackout, the Federal Communications Commission, FCC has proposed measures which could disconnect over 369,000 Lifeline customers in Puerto Rico.
RELATED:
Post-Hurricane Puerto Rico Blackout Second-Largest in the World: Report
Created in 1985 during the Reagan administration, the Lifeline program is the only federal program that helps connect poor and marginalized communities to telecommunication services. The program helps nearly 13 million people access affordable broadband and voice by providing a modest subsidy of US$9.25 a month to help ease the otherwise costly communications for individuals and families living on the margins.
"With the 2018 hurricane season around the corner, the last thing residents of Puerto Rico and other hurricane-ravaged areas need, are measures that would disconnect them from lifesaving networks," Carmen Scutaro, the vice president of Policy and General Counsel of the National Hispanic Media Coalition and Gloria Tristani, a former commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, pointed out according to the Hill.
US Agency Plans to Cutback Puerto Rico's Telecom Program for Low-Income ...
We surveyed 112 Puerto Rican funeral homes to check the accuracy of the hurricane death toll
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