Labor Secretary Miguel Romero submitted a $116.5 million budget for fiscal 2012 to the House Treasury Committee Friday, saying it will be enough for the agency to operate and run a number of programs that pursue job creation in a market where the workforce barely reaches 42 percent.
Government revenue collections totaled $746 million in March, a figure that is 10.1 percent, or $69 million over the same month the prior year, the Treasury Department said Thursday.
Gov. Luis Fortuño’s administration has three months to show Moody’s Investors Service that it is taking enough — and correct — action to address the Commonwealth Retirement System’s $28 billion funding shortfall to avoid a possible downgrade of its current A3 rating.