TOP PRIORITIES FOR DELAWARE
This list of policy priorities impact businesses, both large and small, in every industry across the state of Delaware.

​ Workforce Development

• Promote policies that sharpen the state government’s focus on upskilling and retraining the workforce
  • Encourage public spending policies that accelerate training and skills upgrades to meet employer needs
  • Oppose policies that artificially move wages or impose benefit requirements
  • Find opportunities to create durable soft skills in employees and incentivize employers to accelerate the advancement of new hires
• Create employment opportunities with an emphasis on building trades, technology, health care, and logistics
• Support employer-led diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives
• Support employer-led child care initiatives
• Work to find alternative health care insurance plans that include essential health benefits

Fiscal Policy

• Encourage timely and strategic spending of federal resources on infrastructure and one-time investments
• Support financial investment in the state’s rainy day fund and budget smoothing effort
• Back tax policies that incentivize workforce training

Economic Development

• Continue to support Ready in 6 policy reforms
• Support expanded site readiness
• Ensure the completion of Coastal Zone regulations and improvement of sites

Environment

• Monitor developments related to state Climate Action Plan
  
• Support the cleanup of Brownfields

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past PUBLICATIONS:

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

Unequal Pay: Comparing State & Private Sector Employee Compensation in Delaware
Andrew G. Biggs, Ph.D., presented by DPPI

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