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Will Puerto Ricans return home after Hurricane María?

  • Written by Alexis R. Santos-Lozada, Assistant Teaching Professor in Sociology and Director of Applied Demography, Pennsylvania State University
imageIn the wake of Hurricane Maria, mainland schools like this one in Florida are seeing an influx of Puerto Rican students. AP Photo/John Raoux

Even before this year’s devastating hurricane season, the team of demographers I work with at Penn State and the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics had predicted that the population of Puerto Rico would...

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