WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today announced that the U.S. Private Sector Job Quality Index (JQI) fell slightly in May to 81.49, as more service sector workers earning less than the average weekly wage returned to work. The JQI is the ratio of high-quality jobs to low-quality jobs, based on whether…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today released the following statement supporting the Biden administration’s changes to former President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 13959 that prohibited U.S. investments in Chinese firms listed on the U.S. Department of Defense list of companies supporting China’s military. The Biden administration’s changes to the Trump-era policy…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today released a new study of the CPA Reshoring Index (CRI) showing domestic manufacturers’ market share in the domestic U.S. manufactured goods market. The CRI rose slightly from 69.4 in 2019 to 69.6 in 2020, indicating domestic producers met only 69.6% of total U.S. demand for…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today led a coalition letter to Members of the U.S. Senate urging them to pass Senator Tammy Baldwin’s (D-WI) COOL Online Act. This bipartisan legislation would require that country-of-origin labeling (COOL) be clearly and conspicuously stated in any website description of a product. Joining CPA in…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today urged Congress to reject the lobbying efforts of large online retailers and importers like Amazon to remove U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin’s (D-WI) COOL Online Act from the Endless Frontier Act (S. 1260). The bipartisan COOL Online Act passed the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) sent a letter to U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, outlining seven serious concerns with his recently introduced Trade Preferences and American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2021. The legislation would update and renew the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) and…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today released a new economic report that documents for the first time the severe disparity in historical job quality for Black and Hispanic workers compared to the national average for all U.S. workers. The report, “Quantifying Job Quality for U.S., Black, Hispanic, and Asian American Workers,”…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) applauded the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) for approving, last week, three bipartisan bills that strengthen Buy America rules more than any legislation has in decades. CPA has long-supported efforts to update current law in order to maximize the U.S. content in…
CPA sent the following letter to President Joe Biden requesting the administration to strengthen Executive Order 13959 (EO) to prevent Wall Street from funding Chinese military companies. Dear President Biden: Thank you for your continued efforts to hold the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) accountable for its nefarious behavior and gross human rights violations throughout China,…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today applauded the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation for passing with overwhelming bipartisan support Senator Tammy Baldwin’s (D-WI) COOL Online Act, which was added as an amendment to the Endless Frontier Act (S. 1260). The bipartisan COOL Online Act would mandate that country-of-origin…
