Date: November 20, 2013

To order the Social Development Commission? Economic and Planning and to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Anti-Consumer Practices? monopolistic, of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, to carry out research on possible market saturation, in the retail sales sectors, and its effects on the Puerto Rican economy; and for other related purposes.

To commemorate the International Year of Statistics, the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics, the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey and its Institute for Interdisciplinary Research will hold the Puerto Rico Population Studies Conference. The objectives of the Conference are:

1. Highlight the importance of population studies in the globalized world and examine the current state and challenges for Puerto Rico.
2. Promote a meeting between professionals in this area and related disciplines to exchange knowledge, interests and perspectives in the field of population studies.
3. Generate alliances between the academy, the private sector and the government sector to draw up a work agenda to address the demographic challenges faced by Puerto Rico in the 21st century.

CEPPR Presentations

• Student Demography
  • Student Demography
• Importance of Demography
  • Importance of Population Studies
  • Contributions of the ECLAC conference to the regional debate
• Demography in Puerto Rico
  • Fertility, its characteristics and the aging of the Puerto Rican population
  • The Immigrant Population in Puerto Rico
  • Mortality in Puerto Rico
• Census Bureau
  • U.S. Census Bureau Population Data for Puerto Rico
• Diaspora
  • Mickey Ricans? The recent Puerto Rican diaspora in Florida
  • Puerto Ricans at the Dawn of the New Millennium
  • Puerto Rican Migration in the 21st Century (Spaniard | English)
• Demographic challenge and health disparities in Puerto Rico
  • Disparities in HPV-related cancer occurrence in Puerto Rico
  • Demographic and Socioeconomic Plan of Puerto Rico

Materials

• Prog Videos

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The process to develop Puerto Rico's First Human Development Report begins.

Home values rise while the homeownership rate falls

Date: October 15, 2013

To amend Articles 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 11 and 58 of Law 246? 2011, known as the “Child Safety, Welfare and Protection Act”, with the purpose of adding “human trafficking” in any of its forms as one of the forms of child abuse contemplated as public policy in this law; adding “human trafficking” as one of the definitions of child sexual abuse; including “human trafficking” as part of the definition of mistreatment and institutional abuse; defining the conduct or concept of “human trafficking”; including prevention against human trafficking as an obligation of both the family as of the State; include human trafficking as one of the instances in which the Department of Justice and the Puerto Rico Police must carry out joint investigations when cases of abuse are referred to or presented; include cases of human trafficking in the Central Register of Protection Cases; include, within the responsibilities of the Department of the Family...

Date: September 30, 2013

To establish as public policy the formulation of continuous and recurrent ten-year education plans, with broad citizen participation, that give direction and link, starting from the decade 2014-2024, the Department of Education, the Puerto Rico Council of Education and other related agencies; to establish mechanisms and structures for broad citizen participation for the formulation and approval of the same; to adopt the initial proposal of thematic axes that emerge from citizen forums, transsectoral dialogues and the Working Table, which will be object of consultation, discussion and citizen deliberation; creating the Transsectoral Commission for the Ten-Year Education Plan (CTPDE), an entity responsible for facilitating citizen consultation and deliberation processes, as well as designing, convening and directing the General Assembly of the Ten-Year Education Plan; providing for the Proclamation and implementation of ten-year plans; allocating budget for the consultation, deliberation and formulation of plans.