Forty-seven states, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia will receive $30 million total from the U.S. Small Business Administration in a second round of funding to support efforts to increase exporting by small businesses.
Since its enactment by the federal government in 2010, the Affordable Care Act has already saved more than 45,000 Medicare beneficiaries in Puerto Rico a total of $111.4 million on the cost of prescription drugs, Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi said Sunday.
More than 2,000 Puerto Rican companies have received their digital certifications through the government’s online bidders registry launched four months ago, General Services Administration Chief Olga M. de Cardona-Martínez told News is my Business.