My partner is an artist and decided to try it as a business for a short while. I think they sold a small painting for 250 USD and another for 180. They really hated doing art as a job and shut down the business.

You should put a magazine with bullets in that gun first.

It hasn’t moved forward because Congress has to approve it. Just because Puerto Rico wants to be a state doesn’t mean they’ll be instantly let into the Union. Here’s a link to the voting results. Its in Spanish since it’s from the biggest newspaper on the island.

The last time there was a plebiscite in 2020, voting on whether to become a state or not, the outcome was for statehood by 52.34%.