BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 4 -- Gov. Maura Healey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release on Oct. 3, 2024: The Healey-Driscoll Administration announced today that Massachusetts is one of 14 states awarded federal grant funding through the Affordable Care Act intended to improve women's health coverage and access to critical health benefits. The Massachusetts Division of Insurance (DOI) will receive $627,854 in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, thr  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Oct. 4 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release: Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a coalition of 18 attorneys general, defended a federal effort to expand health insurance access to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients. Established in 2012, DACA enables certain young people, commonly referred to as Dreamers, who came to the United States as children and have lived in America continuously since 2007, to avoid immed  more

MONTPELIER, Vermont, Oct. 4 -- Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman, D-Vermont, issued the following statement on Oct. 3, 2024: * * * On Tuesday, Lt. Governor Zuckerman released the following statement of support regarding a letter send by legislators to Governor Scott this morning calling on him to declare a state of emergency over Vermont's homelessness crisis: "It has been heartbreaking to hear the stories of those who have been evicted from hotels and motels in the past weeks due to the cuts that wer  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release: Today, Administrator Isabel Casillas Guzman, head of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and the voice in President Biden's Cabinet for America's more than 34 million small businesses, announced the expansion of the SBA's Regional Innovation Cluster (RIC) network with 14 new awards. These awards aim to enhance the reach and impact of the SBA's support for innovative small businesses and entrepren  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued the following news release: MADISON, Wis., Oct. 4, 2024 The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced $11.04 million in funding to support dairy businesses and producers under the Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives (DBI) grant program, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today at the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin. The initiatives support small and mid-sized dairy businesses in the development, produc  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center issued the following news on Oct. 3, 2024: On September 18, 2024, the U.S. DOT Project Delivery Center of Excellence kicked off the first of the three-part thought leadership series: Making Good on the Potential of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (https://www.volpe.dot.gov/project-delivery-center-excellence/making-good-potential-bipartisan-infrastructure-law). Remar  more