By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-30 15:44:19 | Updated at 2024-10-31 15:21:40
1 day ago
White House awards $5 million to University of Puerto Rico in sweeping grants to Hispanics
The Washington Examiner via MSN ^ | October 30, 2024 | Jenny Goldsberry
Posted on 10/30/2024 8:12:36 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday to give $19 million in grants to schools that serve Hispanic students.
The University of Puerto Rico's Rio Piedras Campus received $5 million of the share, with four other schools across Florida, Illinois, and Texas sharing the rest. This money is part of the Education Department's Research and Development Infrastructure Grant Program, which has a fund of about $49 million to split among historically black, tribally controlled, and minority-serving colleges and universities. This latest allotment comes with less than a week until Election Day.
Since Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris took office, Puerto Rico's colleges and universities have received over $1.1 billion in government funding, behind Florida, Texas, and California in the top five recipient states. The administration awarded over $16 billion nationwide.
This comes as the Harris campaign has scrambled to rally Latino voters in recent days since former President Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden. There, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made a joke about Puerto Rico that was poorly received. UFC fighter Jorge Masvidal said he believed Harris’s record was worse than the joke. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona vaguely referred to the joke and this new executive order in a post to X.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; election; hispanics; puertorico
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2 posted on 10/30/2024 8:15:06 AM PDT by cnsmom
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Hmmmmm! Waste management studies? There is (allegedly) a trash/garbage issue in PR with land fills.
3 posted on 10/30/2024 8:15:25 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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4 posted on 10/30/2024 8:16:29 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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Waste of time there are no jobs to be had. 2022 graduates from Ivy schools are still in mom’s basement looking for jobs. Waste of money and time.
5 posted on 10/30/2024 8:18:31 AM PDT by cnsmom
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6 posted on 10/30/2024 8:19:07 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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Pres. Biden tonight: “The only garbage I see floating out there is his (Trumps) supporters
X ^
Posted on 10/29/2024, 5:07:01 PM by janetjanet998
Pres. Biden tonight:
“Donald Trump has no character. He doesn’t give a damn about the Latino community…just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage?…The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.”
7 posted on 10/30/2024 8:21:22 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (We have no shortage of so-called experts! America has the most useless aristocrats in history!)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Race based grants are illegal....but it’s done all the time.
8 posted on 10/30/2024 8:21:38 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
To: rktman
The EPA even had a lawsuit against Puerto Rico for their “garbage” problems.
9 posted on 10/30/2024 8:22:45 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Flagrant waste of tax payer money it’s why the party keeps raising taxes.
10 posted on 10/30/2024 8:23:21 AM PDT by Vaduz
To: rightwingintelligentsia
5 mil isn’t exactly a lot of money nowadays......taterheads gettin’ cheap in his old age. Lol!
11 posted on 10/30/2024 8:25:33 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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White House awards $5 million to University of Puerto Rico in sweeping grants to Hispanics
What slush fund of OUR taxpayer dollars does Joe The Mental Midget keep dredging cash from for Ukraine or ANY group he wants, and how big is it?
The House is supposed to be in control of funding.
12 posted on 10/30/2024 8:29:51 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (PRAY for AMERICA! and VOTE MAGA!)
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We should not have any government school funding for a race or foreign language.
13 posted on 10/30/2024 8:34:06 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: rktman
PR stepped on their crank when they ran the US Navy out in the early 2000s.
I was there supporting the Navy 6 months before that happened and could see how much money the Navy infused into the economy.
There’s no telling how many tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars they forfeited by doing that.
Well, they Vieques back, I hope they’re happy.
14 posted on 10/30/2024 8:35:00 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
They really need the money to buy some more space for landfills. All their landfills are full and they are out of space for new ones. Maybe they can take their garbage to Haiti. The Haitians have all moved to America and aren’t using the island anymore.
15 posted on 10/30/2024 8:35:11 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Walz/Harriz RAT platform: Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Garbage, Garbage, Garbage, Garbage.)
To: Sacajaweau
Trump should force the spotlight on Puerto Rico. He should put the state hood issue front and center. Offer up a Marshall Plan for PR that should occur over the next 5 - 10 years. Outline a plan to clean up that country and put forth an economic plan that could really make a difference. Make them defend the shithole that currently exists. Force the conversation to make people look to the future.
16 posted on 10/30/2024 8:38:50 AM PDT by mund1011 (We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality)
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Trump should focus on freeing Cuba.
17 posted on 10/30/2024 8:40:03 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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18 posted on 10/30/2024 8:41:49 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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