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State of American Business 2025
State of American Business 2025: All Business Is Local
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- Intellectual Property19th Annual USPTO IP Attaché RoundtableTuesday, December 0908:30 AM EST - 11:00 AM ESTJW Marriott Washington DC, 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004Learn More
- Security and ResilienceDisaster Resilience Forum: Beyond the PayoffWednesday, December 1008:30 AM EST - 10:30 AM ESTCharleston Marriott, Charleston, South CarolinaLearn More
- EconomyFree Enterprise Exchange: Indexing the Economic Freedom of North AmericaThursday, December 1102:00 PM EST - 02:45 PM ESTVirtualLearn More
Latest Content
- The U.S. Chamber’s State of American Business event brought together business leaders, lawmakers, and policy experts to discuss how competition will drive business in 2022.At the U.S. Chamber’s annual State of American Business event, Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) explained their top priorities for 2022 and how to move America forward.Suzanne Clark highlighted the innovation and resilience of American business while warning against increasing government overreach stifling competition and our fragile economic recovery.At the State of American Business 2022, UPS CEO Carol Tomé detailed pandemic innovations and predicted that investing in sustainability and technology are two trends that aren’t going away.West Virginia and U.S. Chamber of Commerce today announced an extension to their statewide advocacy campaign thanking Senator Joe Manchin for putting West Virginians first as the reconciliation bill looms in the U.S. Senate.The Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry along with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced a statewide advocacy campaign in opposition to the nearly $2 trillion reconciliation bill being considered in the Senate.The vast majority of contractors report moderate to high levels of difficulty finding skilled labor, leading them to turn down work, according to a recent U.S. Chamber poll.Rising costs, skilled labor shortages, and lack of materials continue to create challenges for the construction industry, sending the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Commercial Construction Index down one point this quarter to 65.















