In the 1930s, during the worst economic depression in American history, President Franklin D. Roosevelt came together with Congress to address the deep electrical disparity rural communities had experienced for decades. The Rural Electrification Act brought an essential utility to millions of Americans and allowed them to fully participate in the modern economy at a time when good-paying jobs were...

On July 22, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced six programs , collectively called Investing in America’s Communities, that the Economic Development Administration (EDA) will execute to equitably invest the $3 billion it received from President Biden’s American Rescue Plan. This EDA investment is the largest economic development initiative from the Department of Commerce in...

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo today announced Mr. Mauro Gregorio, Chief Executive Officer of the Dow Silicones Corporation, as the new U.S. private sector co-chair of the U.S.-Brazil CEO Forum. As the new U.S. private sector co-chair, Mr. Gregorio and his team will work together with the U.S. Government to coordinate, organize, and plan the activities of the U.S. Section in preparation...

Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas and Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo released a joint statement on President Biden’s signing of a new National Security Memorandum, “Improving Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems.” “Today President Biden signed a new National Security Memorandum (NSM) to implement long overdue efforts to meet the scale and...

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo issued a statement on today’s release of a new Joint Statement of Principles in Support of International Education , which aims to increase the competitiveness of the U.S. education industry and attract more international students to educational institutions across the country. The announcement was made at the EducationUSA Forum by Secretary of State...

Thank you, Jen. And good afternoon, everyone. As President Biden often says, we are on the road to recovery. And today marks a real step forward in that recovery. The President signed the American Rescue Plan into law to get our country back on its feet. Thanks to that law, I’m thrilled to announce the launch of a transformative $3 billion economic development initiative today. And I‘m even more...

Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo and National Economic Council Director Brian Deese will moderate a discussion at the White House with a diverse group of stakeholders representing the entire home building supply chain as part of the White House’s Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force. U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia L. Fudge, Director of the Domestic Policy...

Recently, the Partnership for Public Service released the 2020 Best Places to Work in the Federal Government rankings . And, for the ninth consecutive year, the Department of Commerce remained in the Top 5 Best Places to Work in the Federal Government ranking fifth among 17 large agencies. The results were based on the annual 2020 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) sent to 37,247 eligible...

Watch the full event HERE Yesterday, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo, TIME’S UP President and CEO Tina Tchen, and over 75 CEOs and senior leaders from the TIME’S UP Care Economy Business Council met for a discussion on how investments in a comprehensive caregiving infrastructure will build a stronger, more inclusive economy. Throughout the event, speakers highlighted the economic...

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has made two awards totaling $153 million to the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL). The awards were announced today by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo at the NIIMBL annual meeting in Washington, D.C. NIIMBL is a public-private partnership designed to...