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Puerto Rico’s creditors are meeting in New York this week to discuss concerns over inevitable debt default. Puerto Rico has more than $70 billion in outstanding debt and its debt per capita is nearly $19,000.

Justin Vélez-Hagan, Public Policy Ph.D. student and executive director of The National Puerto Rican Chamber of Commerce, recently wrote an op-ed in Fox News Latino about the Puerto Rican debt crisis and provides suggestions for turning the economy around.

“The initial step should be a more effective marketing campaign centered on the tax, labor, environmental, and Latin American and American market access opportunities that are second to none in the Western Hemisphere,” Vélez-Hagan writes.

Vélez-Hagan also suggests Puerto Rico should start marketing to industries experiencing strong growth, noting long-term benefits from employment will outweigh investment over time.

“Outside of industrial jobs, attracting firms in the growing science, technology, and healthcare sectors will instigate job growth that is simultaneously synergistic with Puerto Rico’s already educated and trained workforce,” he adds.

You can read the full op-ed titled “Lenders Meet to Discuss Puerto Rico’s Fate. Is There Still Hope?” here.

Facebook’s latest app may convince me to spend more time using Facebook on my iPhone.

Bugsnag, the cloud-based crash monitoring platform for web and mobile apps, today announced that the company has acquired the technology and IP from JavaScript monitoring firm Rescue.js.

JFrog launches Artifactory, the world’s first high-availability binary repository manager with capabilities to solve all your DevOps redundancy issues.  

Most new Ph.D.s in science are encouraged to pursue tenure-track faculty positions. Dr. Kenneth Gibbs felt pressured to follow that path, but instead he decided to explore a career in science policy in order to more directly impact society.

Dr. Gibbs recounts his professional journey and shares advice for future scientists in an essay in Science Magazine, entitled “Planning a Career in Today’s Landscape.” As a member of the 13th Meyerhoff cohort, Dr. Gibbs majored in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He then completed a Ph.D. in Immunology at Stanford.

Currently, Dr. Gibbs is a part of the Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program (CPFP) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), while finishing a Master’s Degree in Public Health from Johns Hopkins.

Larry Hogan, the leader of watchdog group Change Maryland and former appointments secretary under Gov. Robert Ehrlich, kicked off his campaign in the Republican primary for governor on Wednesday.

Public Policy Professor and Chair Donald Norris was interviewed for an article in The Washington Post about Hogan’s announcement. He said whoever the winner of the Republican primary is faces an uphill battle unless a serious mistake is committed by the Democratic candidate.

“In a statewide race in Maryland, a good Democrat running a good campaign beats a good Republican running a good campaign every time,” Norris said.

You can read the full article in The Washington Post here.