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In an interconnected world, a public health crisis anywhere can become a crisis everywhere. Businesses help minimize economic disruption caused by pandemics like COVID-19 by maintaining safe workplaces, encouraging vaccination, and innovating solutions.
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- Intellectual Property2025 World IP Day Celebration and IP Index LaunchTuesday, April 1501:00 PM EDT - 04:30 PM EDTVirtualLearn More
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- Small BusinessSmall Business Day 2025Thursday, May 0101:30 PM EDT - 05:00 PM EDT1615 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20062Learn More
Latest Content
Women-owned small businesses have been more heavily impacted by the coronavirus pandemic than male-owned small businesses, and they are less likely to anticipate a strong recovery in the year ahead, new data show.
On Saturday, August 8, President Trump signed four Executive Orders addressing unemployment insurance, payroll taxes, evictions, and student loans. According to President Trump, the Executive Orders were a direct response to Congress’s stalemate over a Phase IV deal.
This week’s reporting and commentary on COVID-19 litigation focused on a new coronavirus relief proposal, policy and litigation trends, legal risks for employers, insurance litigation, and liability waivers.
This Coalition letter was sent to Congressional leadership and to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, on the President's Executive Order Deferring Payroll Tax Obligations.
WASHINGTON, D.C – The U.S. Chamber of Commerce today launched the “Cost of Inaction” campaign to quantify and bring to life the very real pain Americans are feeling every day that Congress and the administration fail to provide additional economic relief to individuals, families, businesses, and states impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.
Congress and the White House need to come together on a path that supports families without creating the uncertainty of a big tax surprise.
This week’s reporting and commentary on COVID-19 litigation primarily focused on the debate over the Senate GOP’s proposed lawsuit protections, the liability risks facing reopening schools and college-sports programs, and the growing wave of business-interruption insurance litigation.
On August 12, 2020, the Chamber delivered this letter to Secretary Mnuchin regarding the implementation of the Executive Order deferring payroll tax obligations in light of the ongoing COVID-19 disaster.
