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Leading retailers are at the heart of every community in America providing consumers with essential goods and services, stable jobs, and a legacy of volunteerism and supporting local charities. However, challenges emerge that place substantial financial burdens on retailers.
Given the common nature of these challenges across the industry, RILA pursues coordinated legislative, regulatory, and operational strategies to ensure retailers can continue to support and enhance the communities they serve.
A Deeper Look into Building Communities
Keeping Taxes Stable & Fair
RILA is urging policymakers to ensure all profitable companies pay a minimum tax before they consider raising the corporate tax rate.
Learn MoreKeeping Supply Chains Open & Resilient
RILA supports infrastructure policy that invests in American growth & upgrades the nation’s aging & congested ports, highways, airports, and bridges.
Learn MoreRetailers Commitments to Communities
As the trade association for America’s retail leaders, we know that retailers are so much more than a store; retailers are part of the community.
Learn MoreConnect with Issue Area Experts
RILA and our members support infrastructure policy that invests in American growth and upgrades the nation’s aging and congested ports, highways, airports, and bridges. We will continue to work with coalitions of likeminded organizations, including the DRIVE Safe Coalition and Americans for Modern Transportation (AMT), to advocate for modern solutions to our nation’s infrastructure challenges.
Blake Harden, Vice President, International Trade
Discover How Retail Builds Communities
The Looming Port Strike: What It Means for the U.S. Economy
- By [Sarah Gilmore]
- 09/04/2024
New Retail, Law Enforcement Partnership to Combat Crime
- By [Lisa LaBruno]
- 08/12/2024
Clock is Ticking to Avoid Ports Labor Disruption
- By [Jess Dankert, Sarah Gilmore]
- 08/07/2024
Retail Leaders Discuss Workforce Opportunities & Challenges
- By [Evan Armstrong, Emily Benack]
- 08/05/2024
How to access the benefits of the Inflation Reduction Act
- By [Hans Royal]
- 08/01/2024
Retailers, Prosecutors Collaborative Retail Crime Initiative
- By [Lisa LaBruno]
- 07/18/2024
2024 Election Outlook for Retailers: Tax Policy
- By [Courtney Titus Brooks]
- 07/17/2024
States Forge Ahead in Enacting Privacy Legislation
- By [Austin Gold, Townsend Brown]
- 07/15/2024
CHEVRON OVERRULED: ENDING THE “DIZZYING BREAKDANCE”
- By [Larissa Whittingham]
- 07/01/2024
SCOTUS Upholds Public Safety Laws That Help Communities
- By [Deborah White]
- 06/28/2024
Key Consumer Safety Law Turns One
- By [Michael Hanson]
- 06/27/2024
Retailers Want Debate Remarks to Reflect Real Impact
- 06/27/2024