Puerto Rican workers, unions, protest new austerity plan
Thousands of public sector workers demonstrated on Friday against an austerity plan to help pull Puerto Rico out of a massive debt crisis, saying the private sector should take more of the pain. The island's government is calling for shared sacrifice, and concessions from citizens and investors alike, as it tries to lift itself out of a $72 billion debt hole. But Puerto Ricans have already endured more than a decade of austerity, as the econom
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