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June 11, 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR:
JIM CANNON
8.
FORD
FROM:
SAM HALPER
SUBJECT:
PUERTO RICO: A Harsh Light Dawns
PROBLEM
The statistics of Puerto Rico's progress in the quarter century of
Operation Bootstrap have been a wonder=-l0 to 12% annual GNP increases,
bu inesses
1,000 US industries and
opening up in Puerto Rico, more than
2.8
new jobs? each with a multiplier
effect of
and much, much more.
Yet right now, after more than 25 years=-quite apart from recession
there is still the same percentage of unemployed and roughly the same
percentage of people below the poverty level. The unemployed and veryk poor
generally
are better off in an absolute sense,
asse
accelerating
but not relative to the
índices of GNP, or
the numbers of telephones or Gadillacs or massive or
to
(never before
own
their rising expectations.
us
Sixty percent of the island below the poverty level according to the 1970
cengus, V. 10% on the mainland, unemployment 1s up to 17% officially
privately
the Governor admits
to 30A] 71%
and of the families are on food
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