The heads of the Puerto Rico Economic Development Bank and the Labor Department signed a collaborative agreement to provide funding and grants from the Small Business Financing-CDBG-DR program to new and existing entrepreneurs who received unemployment and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) benefits. People who qualify for the microentrepreneur financing program may receive up to $25,000 […]
The San Juan municipal government has granted $255,000 to six companies that will establish their operations in different communities of the city, as part of the Community Entrepreneurship Program that impacts more than 35 people. “I’m proud that young people and adults from different communities identify needs in their communities and that from there, the […]
If the past decade has shown anything is that Puerto Ricans look adversity in the eye and say, “bring it on!” An economic downturn that has lasted longer than that, the back-to-back hurricanes in 2017, the earthquakes that rocked the south, and the COVID-19 pandemic have hit hard, but residents of this island have found […]
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