Indiana is set to receive, at minimum, nearly $8 billion of the $550 billion passed by Congress in the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and JOBS Act (IIJA) earmarked for “new investments” in the country’s infrastructure. That presents a critical question: is the state prepared to receive and deploy these funds within the requisite five-year period? The Chamber’s Infrastructure Policy Committee [...]

The Employer’s Forum held its annual National Hospital Price Transparency Conference last week. During the conference, the forum launched a new web site – Sage Transparency. The web site incorporates public and proprietary data on hospital pricing and quality. Sage allows employers (and anyone, for that matter) to obtain price and quality data for thousands of hospitals in the U.S. [...]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing amendments and an expansion of the information collected and sectors covered under the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP). This is an effort to improve the quality of the data collected under the program by addressing changes in industry practices, adopting improved calculation and monitoring methods and collecting new data to understand [...]

When President Joe Biden spoke from the White House Tuesday about inflation – which is at its highest level in decades – he acknowledged it “is our top economic challenge right now.” However, the Indiana Chamber was disappointed that no new policy initiatives to help the situation were announced. This unfortunate path is one many economists predicted would happen [...]

With Indiana’s average gas prices hitting an all-time high this week, calls to suspend the state fuel tax are getting louder. While that action will reduce the price at the pump, it ignores the consequences of doing so. Suspending the fuel tax ultimately will cost us all much more. Let’s look closer at the facts surrounding the fuel tax [...]

We released our Legislative Vote Analysis this week scoring state legislators on how they voted on important business legislation in the recent General Assembly. The overall marks are notably lower than last year – ranging from 41% to 88%. The report evaluates legislators’ voting records on important economic and business issues to help citizens and employers understand the actions [...]