Infrastructure and Workforce Development Are Key to Rebuilding America
Check out the key takeaways from our Policy Power Hour: Spotlight on Washington on Jan. 14, 2021.
The United States economy is supported by a highly innovative, creative, productive, and industrious workforce. The jobs that make up the U.S. economy—and the businesses that create those jobs—help workers provide for their families and lead healthy, comfortable, and fulfilling lives.
To keep the economy vibrant and to continue to create opportunity for workers, we must ensure that new businesses can be launched and current ones can be expanded. The U.S. Chamber promotes workplace policies that will enhance, not inhibit, economic growth and job creation.
The Chamber’s Employment Policy Division focuses on advancing employer concerns and interests in a wide array of policy debates. From pushing back on flawed OSHA proposed regulations, to exposing the unions’ role in the efforts to impose a $15 “living wage,” the Chamber is the leading employer voice on matters affecting workplace policy.
Check out the key takeaways from our Policy Power Hour: Spotlight on Washington on Jan. 14, 2021.
Our CEO Tom Donohue's latest New York Times' op-ed details our recent joint lawsuit challenging new federal immigration restrictions.
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We take a look at the impact of COVID-19 on unemployment sector-by-sector.
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Workers would lose the private ballot, be forced to pay union dues, or be told they could no longer work as an independent contractor.
2019 was a productive year for the American Workforce Advisory Board, and 2020 should be too. Check out the highlights from this year.
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Monthly Workforce Monitor: Worker Availability Report — an analysis of the state of the U.S. job market and worker availability.