Puerto Rico

Alaska, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Guantanamo Bay, and the US Virgin Islands all run the same two-part logic: something worth having, paired with denying it to a rival power. Every one…

This site has traced Puerto Rico last on income, absent from the crime record, and once ranked ahead of the mainland US on self-reported happiness before being dropped from the…

In 2016, the UN-backed World Happiness Report ranked Puerto Rico 15th happiest in the world -- ahead of the United States itself that year. By the very next report, Puerto Rico…

This site's own 2023 Census data shows a household in Loudoun County, Virginia -- the highest-income county in the country -- earning 11 times what a household earns in Las…

Loudoun County, Virginia and Las Marías, Puerto Rico are both counted by the same Census Bureau, governed by the same federal government, and paid in the same currency. Median…