“Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda and his smash hit Broadway musical just saved Alexander Hamilton’s spot on the $20 bill. Comedian John Oliver tapped Miranda Sunday to help out with another, much bigger money problem.
Oliver used Sunday’s episode of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” to take a closer look at Puerto Rico’s massive debt. The island is in a state of crisis with over $72 billion dollars in debt coupled with a failing economy. The situation is so bad that recently a power company shut off service to a hospital. Oliver broke down Puerto Rico’s debt crisis, making the case that U.S. policy in Washington D.C. is largely responsible for the island’s hardships, before bringing out Miranda to appeal to U.S. lawmakers by doing …
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