Word: rico
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Task Force has recommended that even more of the training take place outside the college campus, in radically unfamiliar environments slums or rural areas or Job Corps camps, or in other cultures such as Puerto Rico, or in the foreign countries themselves...
...nearly a quarter of a century, Puerto Rico's "Operation Bootstrap" has served as a model of what a backward economy can accomplish under honest, imaginative leadership. Since 1942, when the island's development program got under way, per capita income has risen from $120 to $905, il literacy has been largely eliminated, life expectancy has jumped from 46 years...
...plans to push Puerto Rico out of its halfway house is Governor Roberto Sanchez Vilella, a long time protégé of the legendary Luis Munoz Marin, who retired as chief executive in January 1965. A quiet, pipe-smoking administrator, Sanchez last week sent to his legislature no fewer than 34 pro osals, the first part of a dynamic and demanding 85-point program designed to reorient Bootstrap to the island's new problems...
...last year, Fomento, Puerto Rico's economic-development agency, helped create 10,000 new jobs. Yet even that was not enough. The labor force grew even faster, pushing unemployment to 11.6%, nearly three times the mainland rate. Development projects, mostly in light industry, have not generated enough jobs for men, and though there has been some improvement, 60% of the Fomento-produced jobs still go to women. The average wage in manufacturing is only $1.26 an hour-half that of the mainland...
Problems & Solutions. Tourism pumps $120 million a year into Puerto Rico's economy and is the fourth-ranking industry. Yet the luxury hotels on San Juan's beach front, towering not far from the fetid slum of La Perla, symbolize the island's problems. With 2,600,000 inhabitants (686 persons per sq. mi.), Puerto Rico is one of the world's most densely populated countries. Merely to keep up with the increase in population will require a giant jump in job openings-some 200,000 more in ten years-and Governor Sanchez has made employment...