Editor’s Note: George Boyd Jr. is the vice president of Goldens’ Foundry and Machine Company and a CPA member. They’re sold out everywhere. How complicated could it be to just make some more? Turns out, very. [ Alex Shultz | April 7, 2020 | GQ] It didn’t happen exactly this way, but it feels like it did:…
Editors note: Michele Nash-Hoff explains why we need an industrial strategy focusing on getting manufacturing back. So the 40 million unemployed have a chance it getting better jobs than the ones they left. Continuing my series on why manufacturing is important to America, the second reason is that wages and benefits for manufacturing jobs are approximately…
Editors note: Rosemary Gibson is a CPA member. We are very proud that she is making a difference in bringing drug production back to America. Drugs can be manufactured in America more quickly, efficiently, and with better quality control than in China, said Rosemary Gibson, senior adviser at the Hastings Center and author of China Rx:…
Editor’s Note: Fox News features CPA Member, Xenex Disinfection Services CEO Morris Miller on using UV light to destroy coronavirus. Their UV LightStrike robot is a key component to reopening the economy. [April 29, 2020 | Fox News]
Editor’s note: Frank Dowd IV, the Chairman of CPA member Charlotte Pipe & Foundry, makes a compelling case for decoupling from China. The coronavirus has upended our world. In addition to the suffering and death, the U.S. will be left with millions of unemployed, billions in health-care costs and trillions in lost economic activity and…
Editor’s Note: CPA’s study on reshoring pharma could add 800,000 jobs and $200B could be added to economy was mentioned on the Lou Dobbs show on Fox Business [March 26, 2020 | Fox Business]
Editors Note: Michael Stumo is CEO of the Coalition for a Prosperous America, a national organization based in Washington, D.C. Follow him at @michael_stumo. He wrote this commentary exclusively for the News Tribune. The coronavirus pandemic has revealed that globalized supply chains cause more risk than Wall Street has led us to believe. As a recent Senate…
CPA member Rosemary Gibson testified March 12, 2020 before the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 90 percent of America’s generic drug needs are currently imported, particularly from China. This includes many well-known antibiotics and other medications used to treat coronavirus infections. However, the coronavirus outbreak has severely disrupted China’s production of drug exports for…
Excerpt: The good news is that the United States doesn’t need to depend on China for its renewable energy supply chains. Instead, America should start matching China’s industrial strategy. And that means tapping our domestic mineral resources. It’s time to mine rare earth metals at home [Michael Stumo | March 8, 2020 | Dallas Morning News]…
CPA’s year in review | 2019
