Department of Commerce Ranked 4 th in Best Places to Work Amongst Large Agencies The Partnership for Public Service and Boston Consulting Group joined the Washington Post to release the 2022 Best Places to Work in the Federal Government rankings: Top 10 edition. It is our pleasure to announce that the Department of Commerce ranked the 4 th Best Place to Work in the Federal Government, among large...

Today, as part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Investing in America tour , U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information Alan Davidson traveled to Hickory, NC to celebrate the announcement of new fiber optic cable production in the U.S. made possible by the Administration’s Internet for All Initiative. The Bipartisan...

The Biden-Harris Administration is investing a historic $65 billion to bring affordable, reliable high-speed Internet service to everyone in America. But this Internet for All initiative is not just going to get Americans online — it's going to create good-paying manufacturing jobs and revitalize the domestic broadband manufacturing industry. As President Biden said in his State of the Union...

Thank you, John, for that introduction and thank you to the Center for Strategic and International Studies for hosting this forum. I also want to thank the private sector leaders that are here today. You play a vital role in countering democratic backsliding and ensuring that democracies deliver for their people. As President Biden has said, “democracy does not happen by accident…democracy needs...

Today, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves met with Swedish Minister for International Cooperation and Foreign Trade Johan Forssell to discuss Sweden’s hosting of the fourth U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC) Ministerial meeting in May and the two countries’ continued support for Ukraine. The Deputy Secretary said Secretary Gina Raimondo is looking forward to attending the...

Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce is announcing the Regional Economic Research Initiative (Regional Initiative), a new data initiative to improve our nation’s understanding of local regional economies and their ability to compete. The importance of place has often been overlooked in favor of other ways of studying and growing the economy, which has contributed to the concentration of economic...

Roxanne Moadel-Attie, New York Regional Office Program Manager, U.S. Census Bureau When asked what most motivated me to join the Commerce Department’s U.S. Census Bureau, I often point to my graduate research on the psychosocial impacts of racial classification, modeling the integration of both Middle Eastern North African (MENA) and Hispanic/Latino race categories as well as other recommendations...

Expanding Protections for Pacific Remote Islands Toward Goal of Conserving 30% of U.S. Ocean by 2030 Following President Biden’s call to action at the White House Conservation in Action Summit and a Presidential Memorandum issued today, the Commerce Department directed the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to initiate a process to consider designating all U.S. waters around...