TOP PRIORITIES FOR DELAWARE
Our 2025 competitiveness agenda impacts businesses, both large and small, in every industry across the state of Delaware.
Our 2025 competitiveness agenda impacts businesses, both large and small, in every industry across the state of Delaware.
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, TRAINING & EDUCATION
- Protect and strengthen business owners’ decision-making ability
- Promote innovative policies and training programs that help Delawareans find jobs in high-growth, high-demand, and emerging industries
- Support changes to the state workforce development system to reduce redundancy, enhance funding, and improve alignment with the business community’s needs
ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY, & SUSTAINABILITY
- Promote science-based environmental policies that reflect collaboration between all stakeholders to create practical policies and solutions that improve the environment while growing Delaware’s economy
- Encourage public and private sector investments that improve Delaware’s environment and create jobs
- Support the cleanup and redevelopment of brownfield sites
- Invest in infrastructure that improves resiliency from natural disasters
HEALTH CARE
- Support efforts to strengthen the health care workforce to meet the needs of Delaware’s growing and aging population
- Promote workplace wellness programs and policies that improve the physical and mental health of Delawareans
- Collaborate with health care industries on efforts to reduce health care costs while maintaining health care quality and access
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
- Improve Delaware’s national and regional competitiveness rankings for business
- Identify policies and strategies that lower Delaware’s cost of doing business
- Continue supporting initiatives to streamline Delaware’s permitting process
- Advocate for laws and law-making processes that provide certainty and predictability to stakeholders around timelines for development projects
- Invest in site and transportation infrastructure readiness so there are “options on the shelf” for future development
- Push forward policies that address affordability and the diversification of Delaware’s housing inventory
FISCAL POLICY
- Further tax policies that incentivize workforce training and development
- Protect Delaware’s banking and corporate franchises and inform policymakers about the impact that related jobs and revenue have on the State’s budget and economy
- Encourage pro-growth tax and spending policies that reduce revenue and budget volatility and preserve Delaware’s competitiveness and increase business’ ability to expand and create jobs
past PUBLICATIONS:
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2021 Road to Recovery Plan
Co-written by the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce and Delaware Business Roundtable |
2020 Economic Recovery in the First State
Co-written by the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce and Delaware Business Roundtable |
Analysis of Delaware Permit Competitiveness
(Ready in 6) Delaware Business Roundtable |
Delaware's Coastal Zone Act:
A Call for Modernization |
Delaware Growth Agenda
Delaware Business Roundtable |
The Truth About Delaware's Global Brand
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Unequal Pay: Comparing State & Private Sector Employee Compensation in Delaware
Andrew G. Biggs, Ph.D., presented by DPPI |
UPCOMING EVENTS
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