America's infrastructure is in a sorry state. More money and more care are needed for our transportation networks, energy systems, sewers, and all of the other frameworks that keep America running, but it's not happening at the pace and scale needed.
Economic Growth
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation is dedicated to promoting initiatives that grow our nation's economy.
Read the Foundation's report, The Growth Imperative, for more information about the importance of faster economic growth.
An austere wind is blowing, whipped up by budget cuts and regulatory and economic uncertainty. What of the job creator in this climate? Will our economy simply dry up or will the weight of recession be blown away?
Infrastructure resilience is one of the greatest challenges facing our country today. In the post-disaster world of events like Hurricane Katrina and the near meltdown of the Fukishima Nuclear Power Plant in Japan following last year’s catastrophic earthquake and tsunami, public and private sect
Vivek Wadhwa, a noted immigration expert at Duke University, came out with an article in BloombergBusinessweek recently that highlighted some of the latest research on the benefits of
A white paper authored by Nick Schulz, who serves as a National Chamber Foundation (NCF) Scholar and the DeWitt Wallace Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and unveiled today by NCF is part of a grow
The Eight Factors of American Competitiveness
America has momentous deccisions to make. Extraordinary challenges and unprecedented opportunities shaped by an increasingly competitive global economy, shifting demographics, and expanding freedom are taking shape all around us. At the same time, alarming indicators and dangerous trends in our nation’s economy, governance, and politics are seriously impeding our progress and threaten America’s competitiveness position.
High Risk on the High Seas
54% of attacks on maritime vessels were committed by Somali pirates in a region of the world where 21,000 commercial ships annually sail, transporting over 10% of the global oil supply and 7% of the worlds maritime commerce.
Far underneath America's major cities, a crisis is brewing. I speak not of earthquakes or volcanoes, but of sewers and water mains.