Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) announced Monday he will introduce a comprehensive legislative package to provide Puerto Rico a real path to solvency through comprehensive reforms, backed by three other lawmakers.
Looking to build a new “civic infrastructure” for Puerto Rico in the U.S. mainland, a Center for a New Economy will be opening offices in Washington, DC and New York to insert itself in the discussion of fiscal and other issues, the think tank’s President Mike Soto-Class said Thursday.
Leaders of the Puerto Rico Private Sector Coalition signaled that the group’s lobbying efforts have made progress in convincing members of Congress and the White House to add a measure of “economic development authority” to the expected fiscal oversight board to be imposed on the Commonwealth government.
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