News from the GCVCC Business Legislative Advocacy Committee

Recommendations sent to the Governor recently seemed to suggest that the business community should be the safety net to mitigate the unprecedented outcomes of this natural disaster and the government’s response. Our state and federal governments, with the help of the private sector, have always been the safety net. And, in times of crisis response, it is government that delivers essential assistance for recovery and allocates necessary resources that may become scarce. To that end, the GCVCC joined a coalition of advocacy organizations that respectfully disagreed with the premise of the Labor Fed’s letter that private sector should shoulder this burden.

Letter below:

https://gcvcc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Final-response-to-LaborFed-4_7_20-002.pdf