Small Business
Small businesses employ nearly half the entire American workforce and represent 43.5% of America’s GDP. As we have for over a century, the U.S. Chamber represents the full spectrum of the American business community. And like America, where most businesses are small businesses, the vast majority of our members—90%—are small businesses and state and local chambers of commerce.
How The Chamber Advocates for Small Business
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The 2024 honorees for the CO—100, an exclusive list of the 100 best and brightest small and mid-sized businesses, have been announced.
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Technology helps small businesses operate and compete. This report outlines the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI), concerns about regulatory impacts, and the need for education on the benefits of AI.
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Learn about small businesses’ contributions to the economy and the unique challenges they face.
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Showcase: Small Business Profiles
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- Small Business Outlook: Economy, Tax Are Highest Election PrioritiesEvery week the U.S. Chamber's Vice President of Small Business Policy Tom Sullivan summarizes the latest data and what it means for the health of America's small businesses.Learn More
- How the 20% Pass-Through Deduction Impacts Businesses, Local EconomiesThe U.S. Chamber urges Congress to enact the “Main Street Tax Certainty Act,” which would make the 20% pass-through deduction permanent.Learn More
- Small Business Owners Voice Their Optimism about AIA new survey from MetLife and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce finds small businesses feel AI could give them a competitive edge.Learn More
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Our Work
The Chamber’s Small Business Council supports and fights for policies that keep Main Street businesses thriving and workforce vibrant. This includes advocating for a tax and regulatory environment that helps—not hurts—small business owners to create jobs and serve our communities and economy.
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There’s nothing small about small businesses’ contributions to the American economy.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and MetLife today announced a new multiyear collaboration to elevate the voice of small business.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and MetLife (NYSE: MET) today announced a new multiyear collaboration to elevate the voice of America’s small business owners and highlight the important role they play in the nation’s economy.
Small businesses shoulder regulatory costs that are 2 ½ times more per employee than larger businesses.
Thomas Sullivan's testimony before the House Energy & Commerce Environment Subcommittee hearing, "Modernizing Environmental Laws: Challenges and Opportunities for Expanding Infrastructure and Promoting Development and Manufacturing.
Letter from Maxine Turner, founder of Cuisine Unlimited and chair of the U.S. Chamber Small Business Council, and Tom Sullivan, Vice President of Small Business Policy at the U.S. Chamber, to Chairman Risch and Ranking Member Shaheen supporting the nomination of Linda McMahon to lead the U.S. Small Business Administration.
It's hard to overstate how beneficial regulatory reform legislation would be to small businesses like mine.
Maxine Turner's statement for the record submitted to the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management on improving small business input for regulatory policymaking.
On January 18, 2017, the Chamber sent a letter to Congressman Chabot, Congresswoman Velázquez, Senator Risch, and Senator Shaheen applauding the House passage of H.R. 5 which compiles several regulatory reform bills, including H.R. 55, the “Regulatory Accountability Act,” and H.R. 33, “the Small Business Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act of 2017,” and urge the Senate to expeditiously consider regulatory reform legislation.
