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Overview of Puerto Ricans in Connecticut: 22% of families live below the poverty line

7.2% of Puerto Ricans are unemployed, and four out of ten women are outside the state’s workforce

July 7, 2025 - 8:10 PM

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A Puerto Rican flag painted on the streets of Hartford, the capital of Connecticut and the city with the largest Puerto Rican community in the state. (Josian Bruno)

By Itzel Rivera

Periodistaitzel.rivera@gfrmedia.com

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This story marks the beginning of a collaboration between El Nuevo Día and Connecticut Public to cover and give voice to the Puerto Rican diaspora in the state of Connecticut. For suggestions or story ideas, please contact journalist Itzel Rivera at itzel.rivera@gfrmedia.com.

“He just got off a boat,” they would say—in English—to Jhonnathan Rivera Lanzot in the hallways of his elementary school. He, however, did not understand because he did not speak the language; he was only 11 years old and had just moved from Loíza to New Haven, Connecticut.