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Puerto Rican Government Faces Shut Down

HeadlineMay 02, 2006

And the government of Puerto Rico has been shut down after it ran out of money following a dispute between lawmakers and the island’s governor. Puerto Rico”s sixteen hundred state schools have been shut, leaving half a million students and forty thousand teachers with no classes. Nearly one hundred thousand government workers have been temporarily left without jobs. We’ll have more on the shutdown later in the show.

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