Congress Agrees On Plan To Help Puerto Rico Restructure $70 Billion Debt – NPR

After months of negotiation, Republicans and Democrats in Congress have agreed on a plan to help Puerto Rico deal with its crushing $70 billion debt. It sets up a control board to investigate the U.S. territory’s murky financial picture and restructure its debt payments to creditors. Read the full article at: http://www.npr.org/2016/05/19/478729095/congress-agrees-on-plan-to-help-puerto-rico-restructure-70-billion-debt

Central States Pension Fund Drops Efforts to Create Second Bailout Plan – Wall Street Journal

May 19, 2016 4:30 p.m. ET The pension fund representing hundreds of thousands of truck drivers and warehouse workers wont make a second bid at overhauling one of the nations largest multiemployer retirement plans, according to the groups executive director, following a Treasury Department rejection of its original turnaround plan. The decision by the Teamsters Central…