Blogs of the LA Area Chamber

Even though more people are signing up for health coverage through Covered California this year, California’s most vulnerable populations still face significant barriers to accessing quality care.

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The L.A. Area Chamber is at the forefront of relief program advocacy for small businesses. California’s small businesses employ nearly 50% of the state’s workforce, and their ability to emerge from this pandemic stronger is critical to restoring the economy, creating jobs, and strengthening our communities.

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Earlier this week, California Governor Gavin Newsom delivered the annual State of the State address from Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.

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Vice President Kamala Harris recently shared that nearly 2.5 million women left the workforce due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It took decades for women to achieve positions of leadership, and the future of business in California cannot afford to lose those gains, especially in such a short period of time.

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We often ask ourselves, what is the role of the business community? We believe business can be a partner that brings about innovative solutions to help tackle the challenges ahead to ensure we have healthy communities, an economy that is strong, and families that are thriving. The realities of this pandemic, the loss, economic devastation, and the inequities we have seen are heartbreaking. And, nowhere is it more evident than in the results of schools closing.

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While 2020 will be remembered as a significant year across the globe, not only because of the resulting turbulence of the pandemic, but also because of the events unfolding on the global trade front, we look with hope to a new U.S. administration to see how trade policy will be approached.

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When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted Emergency Use Authorization to two COVID-19 vaccinations in December, less than a year after the pandemic began, it marked a major step toward ending the scourge that, so far, has taken more than 400,000* American lives. However, we have seen that having authorized vaccines and getting those vaccines into peoples’ arms are two very different things. We have also seen that some of the hardest hit communities will not be among the first to receive the vaccines.

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January marks the new year and a time for the Chamber to celebrate its time-honored tradition of “passing the gavel”, meaning the annual transition from one Board Chair to the next. For 133 years, the Chamber has fostered civic leadership through this transition.

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The inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris marks a new chapter in our country's history. While there were not the traditional crowds, parades or celebratory events, we witnessed peaceful transfer of power. President Biden called for unity and spoke about the importance of our country's leadership as well as acknowledging the work ahead.

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