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Puerto Ricans are the largest Latino group in at least two districts that could change party hands in November’s midterm elections.

Even though the Puerto Rican population in New York City has declined, candidates for mayor are still vying for their votes. The upcoming November 4 election is shaping up to be historic: for the first time, a socialist candidate of Indian and Muslim descent, Zohran Mamdani, could be elected mayor.

As they move from Puerto Rico and between states, many Puerto Rican families face cultural, language and economic barriers while seeking better services for their children with special needs.

After running and winning 26th Ward for the Democrats in Chicago, she is still skeptical of that party and has her feet firmly anchored in her community.

Jessie Fuentes and Cristina Pacione Zayas are two Puerto Rican politicians in Chicago who have experienced government abandonment in various stages of their lives, but who have also witnessed the power of community organizing that achieved anti-gentrification legislation.

The high cost of hiring a lawyer, the English language, and an insensible prison system complicate the situation for families in Puerto Rico with relatives imprisoned in the United States.

For Samuel Serrano, going to prison is like disappearing. And he knows from experience that many stay inside. He is Puerto Rican, owns an auto repair shop in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the state with the most people born in Puerto Rico serving sentences in state prisons.

The correctional classification system doesn’t have the exact number, but for the first time, the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo got a sample that allows us to look at this historically invisible population.

The diaspora faces inequity and gentrification in the second US city with the largest Puerto Rican population.