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Wednesday, June 3-9, 2020 — // no. 058
Guayacán Focused on Opportunities P6 FOMB Victorious With SCOTUS P7 Tourism: Golf Courses Reopen P8
Puerto Rico’s Youth Faces
New Challenges, Opportunities The job market in the coronavirus age
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The Reality of ‘COVID-15’ P14
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aced with the realities of a global crisis due to COVID-19, natural disasters and a 14-year economic recession, Puerto Rico’s young adults now have drastically different concerns, priorities and opportunities than their predecessors. Glorielie Santiago obtained her Bachelor’s degree just last week from the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), Ponce campus in Psychology with an emphasis on rehabilitation. Santiago’s vocation in life is
to work with people with mental health problems and different disabilities to help them join the workforce. But her own path toward work stability could be laden with obstacles. Santiago just learned that she was admitted to the UPR’s Graduate School of Rehabilitation Counseling at the Río Piedras campus in San Juan. Under ordinary circumstances, she would have already started planning to move on campus or nearby, finding a part-time job to pay off her needs, or just celebrating the good news with her GO TO PAGE 4