Most Americans agree that our roads, bridges, mass transit systems, air and sea ports, and water infrastructure are critical national assets that drive growth, jobs, safety, and global competitiveness.
What we can’t seem to agree on is how to pay for badly needed maintenance and repairs. It’s time to stop thinking about infrastructure as a problem, but as an opportunity for bipartisan agreement to invest wisely and carefully in our most critical needs, while eliminating wasteful spending.
The U.S. Chamber-led Let’s Rebuild America (LRA) initiative is the Chamber’s response to America’s infrastructure challenge—keep up with what the business community demands or U.S. economic productivity and global competitiveness will suffer.
This issue brief examines the need to adjust the Federal Motor Vehicle User Fee, commonly referred to as the 'Gas Tax'. To rebuild and expand our roads, bridges, and transit systems, it is time for a modest increase in the federal motor vehicle fuel user fee.
America’s Infrastructure Summit: Time to Modernize
This dynamic, high energy day-long event will serve to jumpstart important conversations on revitalizing America’s infrastructure, ensure that infrastructure is a top policy priority for 2018, and bring together the business community to voice broad industry support.
In order to modernize America's infrastructure, an expansion of the workforce is necessary. This issue brief explains the need, and includes recommendations on increasing the number of skilled workers.
Neither the government or the private sector can modernize America's infrastructure alone. This issue brief examines why public-private partnerships are integral to modernizing America's infrastructure.
This issue brief examines the tight correlation between modernizing America's infrastructure and streamlining the permitting process.
Because Washington has been unwilling to make tough choices, the nation’s infrastructure has suffered.
The story previews the Chamber’s proposal, which will recommend increasing the gas tax by 25 cents over 5 years, encouraging additional private investments in infrastructure projects, streamlining the permitting process, and growing the workforce.
Here's what happened at the post-State of American Business Address press conference.
Donohue Urges Leaders to Pursue Stronger, Sustained, Shared Economic Growth
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