WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today announced that the U.S. Private Sector Job Quality Index (JQI) rose to 81.29 in May, up 0.28% from the previous month, reflecting a rise in both high-quality and low-quality jobs. The slight increase was the result in increases in high-quality jobs in construction and transport/warehousing, which were partially…
“A move by President Joe Biden to remove tariffs on Chinese consumer goods will do little to dent inflation, economists say, and risks further hamstringing Democratic candidates in political battlegrounds.” — Bloomberg (July 5, 2022) WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today released a statement urging President Biden to not implement…
A new index measures the amount of manufactured goods consumed in the U.S. that are made here opposed to imported.
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today released its Domestic Market Share Index (DMSI), a new indicator that measures the success of U.S. manufacturing producers in the U.S. home market. The U.S. market for manufactured goods, worth over $7 trillion last year, is the world’s largest. Since 2002, when current government data…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today applauded legislation introduced by U.S. Representative Tim Ryan (D-OH) that would boost U.S. solar manufacturing by closing a loophole in the Buy American Act (BAA). Currently, the federal government does not buy solar equipment, only energy via power purchase agreements (PPAs). The PPAs can be…
Corporate profits grew by double and sometimes triple digits during the COVID-19 pandemic. Worker wages did not.
The FDA Safety and Landmark Advancements (FDASLA) Act has passed a key committee, with 25 out of some 30 amendments passing. Generics and baby formula crisis got most of the attention.
Harry Moser of the Reshoring Initiative gives his assessment of America’s reshoring efforts in testimony to the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission.
By Jeff Ferry, CPA Chief Economist, and Roslyn Layton, Ph.D., Co-Founder, China Tech Threat This Policy Paper, co-written by Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) and China Tech Threat (CTT), highlights the dangers of an impending decision by Apple to begin using Chinese-made memory chips in the iPhone 14. The paper outlines how this creates…
Deborah Rosenblum of the Department of Defense tells the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission that Washington has to reshore critical supply chains.
