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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — While ASG leaders are concentrating all their efforts into stopping the community spread of the Coronavirus, many workers, families and small businesses are already starting to feel the financial impact of Code Red — with job closures and reduced hours.
It’s been a week...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Chief Procurement Officer, Ti’alemasunu Dr. Mikaele Etuale has informed executive branch directors to rotate vendors for “micro purchases” valued at up to $3,500. And the move is applauded by owners of small businesses hoping to get a share of the money the government...
WASHINGTON — Last week U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the American Samoa Government to capitalize and administer a Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) that will...
Washington, D,C, — Congresswoman Amata is the lead cosponsor of a bipartisan bill to give more flexibility to small businesses so they can use the PPP assistance to supply personal protective equipment to their employees, or otherwise use the money with more discretion to pay their most essential...
Washington, D.C. – Wednesday, Congresswoman Aumua Amata is welcoming a weekly update from the Small Business Administration (SBA) that the American Samoan employers have now successfully acquired 100 loans under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) totaling over $6 million.
“I appreciate the...