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Indiana Businesses Head to Washington for D.C. INsider Meeting

(INDIANAPOLIS) — Hoosier business leaders will gather in the nation’s capital September 15-16 for the Indiana Chamber’s D.C. INsider trip. This is the organization’s annual two-day forum that connects the Hoosier business community with the people and policies impacting their companies and organizations. A highlight of the event is a breakfast panel discussion with Indiana’s congressional delegation moderated by [...]

2026-08-18T13:44:25-04:00August 17th, 2026|

Indiana Chamber, Indy Chamber Partner With Local Chambers to Expand ChamberCare Health Plan Access for Small Businesses

ChamberCare Partner Network Brings Trusted, Close-to-Home Support to Employers Seeking Stable, Competitive Employee Health Benefits (INDIANAPOLIS) — As health insurance costs continue to challenge small employers, the Indiana Chamber of Commerce and Indy Chamber are expanding access to ChamberCare through a growing network of local chamber partners. The effort is designed to make affordable, more predictable health benefit options [...]

2026-07-20T08:25:50-04:00July 16th, 2026|

Indiana Chamber Sharpens Statewide Prosperity Plan to Accelerate Indiana’s Growth

Updated Indiana Prosperity 2035 Roadmap Narrows Priorities, Strengthens Benchmarks and Calls on Business Leaders to Help Drive Measurable Progress (INDIANAPOLIS) — Three years after launching its statewide vision plan, Indiana Prosperity 2035 (IP35), the Indiana Chamber of Commerce is sharpening that focus to meet a faster-moving economic moment. The result is more targeted priorities, strengthened benchmarks and a call [...]

2026-07-14T08:49:53-04:00July 14th, 2026|

Indiana Chamber, CICP Partner on Statewide AI Roadshow Series to Advance Indiana’s AI Readiness

Events Support Governor Braun’s IN AI Statewide Initiative, Bring Together Business, Education, Nonprofit and Community Leaders to Explore Practical AI Adoption (INDIANAPOLIS) — The Indiana Chamber of Commerce and CEOs of Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP) are partnering to host a statewide series of AI roadshows designed to help Indiana employers understand, evaluate and adopt artificial intelligence technologies that can [...]

2026-07-09T10:03:13-04:00July 9th, 2026|

America at 250: Recommit to Innovation and Enterprise

By Vanessa Green Sinders, Indiana Chamber president and CEO With all the attention surrounding America’s 250th birthday, we should rightly recognize the ideals that gave this nation life: liberty, self-government and the promise of opportunity. For two and a half centuries, American innovators, entrepreneurs, employers and workers have used their freedom to build. They have advanced agriculture and manufacturing, [...]

2026-06-30T14:27:04-04:00June 30th, 2026|

Crunch Time for Primary Election Impact

It’s not an exaggeration to say the biggest and most consequential primary election battle ever for the General Assembly is underway. Some 32 incumbents face primary challengers, including 16 committee chairs! This is unprecedented intra-party conflict. In nearly all cases, the primary is the election. The stakes are huge for the business community and will impact efforts to get [...]

2026-03-25T14:55:20-04:00March 25th, 2026|

Short But Impactful 2026 Legislative Session; Setting Stage for 2027

By Vanessa Green Sinders, Indiana Chamber president and CEO Building on past momentum, this legislative session delivered meaningful policy wins that strengthen Indiana’s competitiveness and create new opportunities for businesses and their workers to prosper. Our Final Legislative Report (with scorecard) highlights those top achievements – including further advances regarding childcare and work‑based learning, long-sought modernization of local government [...]

2026-03-10T14:09:52-04:00March 10th, 2026|

Indiana Chamber Scores Legislators on 2025 Voting Records, Names Champion Lawmakers

(INDIANAPOLIS) — The Indiana Chamber of Commerce has released its 41st annual report scoring state legislators on how they voted on important business legislation in the recent General Assembly session. More than 50 lawmakers earned a perfect mark in the Legislator Scorecard, with the overall results revealing a wide gap – ranging from 8% to 100%. Seven policymakers also [...]

2025-08-05T13:44:52-04:00August 5th, 2025|

Chamber’s Wellness Council Offers Enhanced ‘Quit Now’ Tool to Help Tobacco Users, Employers Given New Tax Increase

The state estimates that nearly 40,000 Hoosiers will soon be looking to stop using tobacco after tax increases on those products go into effect July 1. The new average price of a pack of cigarettes in Indiana will rise to $11 because of the $2 per pack bump. The tax hike also applies to vapes and chewing tobacco. To [...]

2025-09-15T16:29:32-04:00June 30th, 2025|

Announces New Opportunities to Enhance Businesses, Lives of Hoosiers

By Vanessa Green Sinders, Indiana Chamber president and CEO The legislative session has concluded, but the Indiana Chamber remains active in seizing opportunities to enhance the state throughout the year and complement actions taken by lawmakers. First up is the new TPM Academy of Indiana. Indiana’s talent pipeline remains a needed and critical conduit to a thriving future economy. [...]

2025-06-18T12:24:47-04:00June 18th, 2025|