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Improve the Outdated Permitting Process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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The practical effect of the debt limit has been to manufacture a series of distracting and economically dangerous political crises.
The union front group Fight for $15 was at it again yesterday with another demonstration against its perennial target...
In an op-ed published in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, the newly-installed Secretary of Labor, Alexander Acosta, offered some insights...
"Sue and Settle Updated: Damage Done 2013-2016" updates the Chamber’s 2013 report, "Sue and Settle: Regulating Behind Closed Doors". The study found that EPA increased its use of sue and settle agreements under the Clean Air Act since the last report.
The inaugural MetLife & U.S. Chamber of Commerce Small Business Index (Index), released today, found that nearly two-thirds of small business owners are expecting revenue growth and looking to hire despite harboring concerns about the health of the national economy. Based on telephone interviews with 1,000 small business owners and operators, the survey found that nearly a third plan to hire more employees and 60 percent expect revenue to increase in the year ahead. Comparatively, only 6 percent plan to reduce their staff size and 9 percent are forecasting a decrease in revenue.
The MetLife & U.S. Chamber of Commerce Small Business Index is a new national quarterly survey of small business owners.
COLUMBIA — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce and the University of South Carolina’s SC Cyber, today hosted a cybersecurity summit aimed at helping small and mid-size businesses develop, evaluate, and strengthen their cybersecurity programs.
Consumers who buy their own insurance may soon be forced out of the market.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce commended Congressional leaders for the introduction of S. Con. Res. 16 and H. Con. Res. 54, calling for U.S. support of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).
The shale boom is powering innovation and industrial investment by making feedstocks and electricity more affordable.