Making News
International Women's Month 2023
Spotlight on Small Business
Small Business
Interactive Map: New Business Applications Across the Country
By Stephanie FergusonSmall Business
The Biggest Challenges Small Businesses Are Facing Right Now
By Thaddeus Swanek
Small Business
Small Business Weekly Forecast: Sunny and ColdEvery week the U.S. Chamber's Vice President of Small Business Policy Tom Sullivan summarizes the latest data and what it means for the health of America's small businesses.
By Thomas M. Sullivan
Earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria
We Can’t Stand Still: The Strategic Case for Trade
Article
The world is charging ahead in pursuit of new market-opening trade agreements, but in recent years Washington policymakers have been sitting on the sidelines. Here is why America must lead on trade.
Calling on Congress
Energy
Improve the Outdated Permitting Process
By Martin DurbinInternational
Take the Lead on Trade, America
By Myron Brilliant
Immigration
Calling on Congress: Fix America’s Broken Immigration SystemOur elected representatives in D.C. simply cannot let another Congress go by without addressing our nation’s broken immigration system and securing our southern border.
By Jon Baselice
Workforce
Grow and Modernize Our Workforce
By Cheryl A. OldhamFinance
Grow Investment Opportunities in America
By Tom Quaadman
Chamber OnDemand Highlights: Navigating Business in 2023
Deep Dives on Workforce Data
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Without action from Washington, Americans could see premiums skyrocket and coverage options diminish.
Six Nobel Prize winners see fixing our broken system represents an opportunity to our economy.
Russia is increasingly taking steps to exert more control over the Internet.
We must discourage bad actors from hacking businesses because they believe that the costs to them will exceed their expected benefit.
When it comes to security, create a culture where caution is encouraged.
Seven costly regulations on business have been scrubbed with more expected.
Opportunity is at the heart of the American Dream, and at the heart of opportunity is a job. When the right person fills the right job, we all benefit—families, neighborhoods, businesses. We all grow and prosper. Yet, there’s a disconnect in our country. The national unemployment rate has fallen since the depths of the Great Recession, but we still have too many people without jobs and too many jobs without people.
New innovations and technologies are fertile ground for economic growth. They lead to startup companies, job creation, and a rush of capital and investment. But once a technology gets big, it’s never long before government regulators and aggressive trial lawyers swoop in to crash the party. Hasty regulations and expansive liability stunt the sector’s growth and slam the brakes on job creation.
2017 is off to a busy start for the U.S. Chamber.
Today, Neil Gorsuch was confirmed as Associate Justice to the Supreme Court by a 54-45 vote.