During a congressional hearing with the secretary of homeland security Wednesday, Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., said that “Puerto Rico, in good times, thinks that the Jones Act cost them about a ...

If U.S. citizenship for Puerto Ricans is no longer secure, then neither is the colonial arrangement that produced it.

The Jones Act doesn’t apply to cargo shipped between the mainland states and the U.S. Virgin Islands, but it does affect Puerto Rico, whose 3.4 million residents get a large portion of their ...

Puerto Rico faces a staggering array of long-term economic challenges beyond the hurricane, and the Jones Act serves as a major impediment to addressing any of them.

Trump's hesitation on to waive the Jones Act caused him a political headache these past few days. It fed into a narrative that the president is aloof to Puerto Rico's problems, especially since ...

The Jones Act has always been a big problem for Puerto Rico -- long before Hurricane Maria savaged the island. The law dates back to 1920 and requires all goods ferried between U.S. ports to be ...

A 2010 study by the University of Puerto Rico found that the Jones Act cost the island $537 million per year. The territory has been in a recession for 11 years and is suffering from a crippling ...

The Jones Act stipulates that only U.S.-flagged ships can operate between U.S. ports, so any American goods coming into Puerto Rico via U.S.-governed ports have to arrive on U.S.-flagged, U.S ...

In 2008, six executives of Saltchuck’s Sea Star Line, Crowley Maritime and Horizon Lines, all involved in the Jones Act trade of Puerto Rico were sentenced to prison for conspiring to fix ocean ...

Officials in Puerto Rico praised President Donald Trump on Wednesday for temporarily waiving the 1920 Jones Act, which they said would help provide faster relief as the island tries to recover ...