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Webinar
"Ayudas de Estímulo Económico de las
Organizaciones Sin Fines de Lucro ante el COVID-19"
Otros Webinars y ayudas
INDUSTRIA TURÍSTICA DE PUERTO RICO
SECTOR MÉDICO DE PUERTO RICO
CONTRATISTAS Y EL SECTOR DE CONSTRUCCIÓN
ORIENTANDO A LOS CPA
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Impacto Económico de COVID-19 en Puerto Rico
Invest Puerto Rico (InvestPR) está realizando una investigación sobre el impacto económico del nuevo coronavirus, COVID-19, en las empresas de Puerto Rico. InvestPR es la organización encargada de promover la isla como un destino para inversión. Las respuestas a esta encuesta serán agregadas y anonimizadas antes de ser compartidas públicamente. Esta encuesta solo debe tomar 5 minutos de su tiempo. Para obtener más información sobre InvestPR, visite www.investpr.org.
Si tiene alguna pregunta sobre la encuesta, contáctenos en www.puertoricosigue.org/en/contact.
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WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.1 million grant to the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, to hire three Disaster Recovery Coordinators to execute disaster recovery efforts throughout the entire Commonwealth. The project, to be located in a Tax Cuts and Jobs Act designated Opportunity Zone, will be matched with $266,400 in local investment.
"The Trump Administration is fulfilling its promise to help Puerto Rico recover after the devastation of Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017," said Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross. "The disaster recovery coordinators hired at the University of Puerto Rico will serve as liaisons between local, state, and federal partners to further advance recovery efforts and rebuild the local economy back stronger than ever before."
"In 2018, EDA made $587 million available to eligible grantees in communities impacted by natural disasters in 2017," said Dana Gartzke, Performing the Delegated Duties of the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development. "We are pleased to support collaborative economic recovery efforts to help Puerto Rico further recover following Hurricanes Irma and Maria and to do so in Opportunity Zones across the island."
"We thank President Trump and Secretary Ross for this important EDA grant awarded to the University of Puerto Rico," said Governor Vázquez Garced. "As the island continues to recover from Hurricanes Irma and María, the recent earthquakes, and as we battle the COVID-19 pandemic, my Administration is taking the necessary steps to guarantee that Puerto Rico has access to available federal funding to aid in the recovery process. We welcome this partnership and look forward to continue collaborating with the U.S. Department of Commerce through this process."
"This allocation of millions of dollars demonstrates once more that the federal aid continues to be assigned to the reconstruction of Puerto Rico after the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria," said Puerto Rico's representative in Congress, Jenniffer González Colón. "Moreover, it highlights the accomplishment of including Puerto Rico in the designations of opportunity zones which adds to our recovery, causing substantial investments such as these."
The funding announced today goes to a designated Opportunity Zone, created by President Donald J. Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, Opportunity Zones are spurring economic development in economically-distressed communities nationwide. In June 2019, EDA added Opportunity Zones as an Investment Priority, which increases the number of catalytic Opportunity Zone-related projects that EDA can fund to fuel greater public investment in these areas. To learn more about the Commerce Department's work in Opportunity Zones, please visit EDA's Opportunity Zones webpage. To learn more about the Opportunity Zone program, see the Opportunity Now resources page here.
About the U.S. Economic Development Administration (www.eda.gov)
The mission of the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) is to lead the federal economic development agenda by promoting competitiveness and preparing the nation's regions for growth and success in the worldwide economy. An agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce, EDA makes investments in economically distressed communities in order to create jobs for U.S. workers, promote American innovation, and accelerate long-term sustainable economic growth.
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WASHINGTON, April 1, 2020 - USDA Rural Development has taken a number of immediate actions to help rural residents, businesses and communities affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. Rural Development will keep our customers, partners, and stakeholders continuously updated as more actions are taken to better serve rural America.
* Visit www.rd.usda.gov/coronavirus for information on Rural Development loan payment assistance, application deadline extensions, and more.
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Washington, DC - U.S. Members of Congress wrote the Puerto Rico Department of Education today, urging the agency to ramp up distribution of school meals to low-income students. While the Island and its school system have been on lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic for nearly a month, meals have not been distributed to students. On April 7, the Department announced it would partner with local nonprofits to distribute meals to children. However, few details on how that plan will be executed have been released.
Among other requests, the letter, led by Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), presses the agency on: when meals will be made available; how many meals students will receive daily; and whether adults in need will also be able to access food, as is occurring in school districts like New York City and Los Angeles.
"For many Puerto Rican families in need, school is a vital food source, ensuring children consistently have access to healthy meals," Velázquez said. "Puerto Rico has the highest child poverty rate in the United States, and it would be unconscionable for these children to go hungry due to inaction. With the pandemic cutting families off from this vital nutritional link, we need to know what the Department is doing to get food distributed quickly. There's no time to waste."
In addition to Velázquez, the letter is signed by: Reps. Caroline B. Maloney (D-NY); Alexandria Ocascio-Cortez (D-NY); Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ), the Chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee; and Darren Soto (D-FL).
[1] United States Department of Agriculture. Nationwide Waiver to Allow Meal Pattern Flexibility in the Child Nutrition Programs. March 25, 2020.
[2] United States Department of Agriculture. Food and Nutrition Service. Puerto Rico: COVID-19 Waivers and Flexibilities.
[3] María E. Enchautegui, Brayan L. Rosa, Caridad A. Arroyo. A Future of Child Poverty in Puerto Rico:
How Much It Costs and What We Can Do About It. January 2019. San Juan: Youth Development Institute of Puerto Rico
[4] Keila Lopez Alicea. Educación no abrirá los comedores escolares. El Nuevo Dia. April 7, 2020.
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En estos momentos, el objetivo principal de la Junta de Supervisión es respaldar al gobierno de Puerto Rico en su esfuerzo por proteger a las personas contra el virus COVID-19, además de ayudar a minimizar y contener los efectos económicos y de salud de la pandemia.
Esperamos que la situación se estabilice lo más rápido posible y que los residentes de Puerto Rico se mantengan seguros. No obstante, es simple y llanamente imposible estimar cuánto tiempo durará la crisis, cuántos fondos se requerirán para ayudar a las personas, los negocios que se verán afectados, y cuál será el impacto económico en términos generales.
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Remarks by President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Members of the Coronavirus Task Force in Press Briefing
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. This is a holy week, when religious believers across the nation will observe Passover, Good Friday, and Easter. Millions of Jewish families begin Passover at sundown tonight, a sacred, unbroken tradition that traces back to the ancient land of Egypt. And on Sunday, we celebrate our beautiful, wonderful Easter, which we all look forward to. And we're going to have many Easters together in churches in the future.
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Watch: Tax Foundation Experts Discuss
Short-term Coronavirus Relief Packages
The coronavirus crisis demands urgent solutions but also careful consideration. How can governments best deliver immediate relief while ensuring that tax policies remain simple, transparent, neutral, and stable?
What tax changes have different levels of government already enacted to address the crises and what can they learn from each other?
What could the next phase of relief look like and what role does tax policy play in ensuring the U.S. and countries around the world make a strong economic recovery?
Three top Tax Foundation experts tackle these questions and others in a new video discussion.
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La FDA está trabajando para abordar el brote de la enfermedad del coronavirus (COVID-19) y mantenerlo a usted y a su familia informados sobre los últimos avances. Aquí hay respuestas a algunas preguntas frecuentes de los consumidores sobre los productos sanguíneos y las mascarillas faciales:
P: ¿Qué pasos se están tomando para proteger el suministro de sangre de EE. UU. del SARS-CoV-2, el virus que causa el COVID-19?
R: Los donantes de sangre deben estar saludables y sentirse bien el día de la donación. Las medidas de detección de donantes de sangre rutinarias que ya existen deben evitar que las personas con infecciones respiratorias donen sangre. Por ejemplo, los donantes de sangre deben tener buena salud y tener una temperatura normal el día de la donación.
Se les indica a los donantes que se comuniquen con el centro de donantes si se enferman después de la donación, para que no se use su sangre o plasma. Sin embargo, incluso cuando un donante desarrolla el COVID-19 después de la donación, no ha habido casos de COVID-19 vinculados a sangre de donante o productos hechos de sangre.
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Telehealth Plays Big Role in Coronavirus Cure
"As our country responds to the unprecedented coronavirus pandemic, we are working rapidly to change the way we practice medicine to keep people safe," Surgeon General Jerome Adams and CMS Administrator Seema Verma write in the Orlando Sentinel.
"One critical innovation is the use of telehealth, which allows patients to use smartphones, laptops, and other widely available technologies to connect with your healthcare team . . . For the duration of the pandemic, Medicare beneficiaries may now stay at home and use a commonly available interactive form of technology like FaceTime or Skype to have a telehealth office visit."
"President Trump was right this week to sharply criticize the inexcusable conduct of the World Health Organization (WHO) regarding the novel coronavirus pandemic . . . The WHO bears responsibility for helping China spread the coronavirus far beyond China's borders. What should have been merely a local outbreak that began in China became a worldwide pandemic as a result of the actions of Beijing and the WHO," Gordon Chang writes for Fox News.
"In the midst of Holy Week, which is also supposed to be the point of peak coronavirus deaths, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was able to deliver some welcome news": Over 50,000 U.S. citizens have been safely returned home from more than 90 countries. "This worldwide scale of our repatriation efforts is without parallel in our lifetime," Secretary Pompeo said. Read more from Fred Lucas in The Daily Signal.
"The first obligation of every president of the United States since the founding of our nation has always been to protect the American people from harm. President Trump invoked his powers under the Constitution and under laws to do this when he ordered illegal immigrants and asylum seekers to be immediately deported to combat the spread of the coronavirus," Thomas Homan, former Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, writes for Fox News.
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Lawmakers and Hispanic Federation Call on Inclusion of All Latinos Including Immigrants and Puerto Ricans in
Next COVID-19 Relief Bill
NEW YORK, NY - During a video press conference today, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chairman Joaquin Castro of Texas and Rep. Adriano Espaillat of New York joined Hispanic Federation in calling for COVID-19 disaster relief for all Latinos, including immigrants and Puerto Ricans who receive limited assistance in the previous three aid packages enacted by Congress. The news conference took place as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi begins discussions on provisions for the next relief bill which will have an "infrastructure" theme.
Hispanic Federation is urging Congress to pass a bill that secures the health and safety for all people, regardless of immigration status or geographic location; orders the release of immigrant detainees --adults and children -- who are being held in unsafe conditions and are even more susceptible to contracting the deadly virus; and to ensure that Puerto Rico is given greater access to programs in the $2 trillion CARES Act enacted a week ago.
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Chamber Policy Actions on Coronavirus
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is committed to helping American businesses respond to the coronavirus so they can support their employees, customers, and communities.
Our members and the state and local chambers, who are on the front lines of this pandemic, need us now more than ever to help them through this temporary but significant disruption. We will continue working every day to help our country's people, businesses, and economy weather this storm and emerge stronger-just as we have at other challenging times in our nation's history. On Monday, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce proposed three ideas to support American businesses and workers, and mitigate job losses amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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SBA Clarifies Eligibility of Faith-Based Organizations to Participate in Paycheck Protection and Economic Injury
Disaster Loan Programs
WASHINGTON - SBA Administrator Jovita Carranza today announced that SBA issued guidance clarifying that all faith-based organizations impacted by Coronavirus (COVID-19) are eligible to participate in the Paycheck Protection Program and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program, without restrictions based on their religious identity or activities, to the extent they meet the eligibility criteria outlined in the CARES Act that was passed by Congress, signed into law by President Trump, and implemented by the Paycheck Protection Act Interim Final Rule.
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Todo lo que debes saber acerca de COVID-19
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Conozca algunos de los mitos del COVID-19
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Uso de mascarillas faciales de tela para ayudar a frenar la propagación de COVID-19
Los Centros para el Control y Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés) recomiendan utilizar mascarillas de tela para cubrirse el rostro en lugares públicos donde sea difícil cumplir con otros requerimientos para el distanciamiento social (ejemplo: farmacias o supermercados), especialmente en áreas donde se ha visto una alta propagación comunitaria del virus.
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Can an infected cook transmit COVID-19 through your food?
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Former CDC Head says we need contact tracing plan now
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¿Alguna vez se han preguntado desde cuándo existen coquíes en Puerto Rico y en el Caribe? Pues hoy les tenemos la contestación a esa pregunta.
Y es que hoy (8 de abril de 2020) acaba de ser publicada mi más reciente colaboración científica junto a David Blackburn, Rachel Keeffe y Maria Camila Vallejo-Pareja del Museo de Historia Natural de Florida en la cual describimos un fósil que representa la rana más antigua de todo el Caribe. En este trabajo, el cual salió en la revista científica Biology Letters describimos en detalle un pequeño hueso que representa el registro más antiguo de una rana del género Eleutherodactylus, o coquí, como se les conoce comúnmente en Puerto Rico. El fósil fue descubierto en una localidad en el noroeste de Puerto Rico, en rocas que datan de entre 31-29 millones de años. Esta nueva localidad es muy cerca de donde descubrimos los roedores más antiguos del Caribe, trabajo que salió publicado en febrero de este año. Previo a este descubrimiento, el registro más antiguo de Eleutherodactylus en el Caribe era del Mioceno temprano (~20-15 Ma) de la República Dominicana.
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La Cámara de Comercio de Puerto Rico está participando junto
al Colegio de Médicos Cirujanos de Puerto Rico y 32 organizaciones de Salud en el Centro de Llamadas.
Se contestan preguntas sobre:
- Salud
- Médicas
- Negocios
- Contribuciones
- Operaciones, logística de envío y recibo de paquetes
- Legales, Recursos Humanos, Osha, entre otros.
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Material Campaña Educativa Nacional Prevención del Coronavirus (COVID19)
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Campaña Prevención Coronavirus y
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