CPA Job Quality Index: Despite the federal government’s strong March 2024 Jobs Report released last Friday, the JQI shows the US labor market suffers from persistent structural issues.
Despite spending over $600 billion on prescription drugs, the number of drugs in shortage rose to a near-record total of 301 active medication shortages at the end of 2023.
Tariffs that began in 2018 have not destroyed the U.S. economy. The stock market did not crash. Tariffs weren’t the cause of inflation either. And many manufacturing industries from kitchen cabinets in Alabama to solar in Ohio are thriving because of them.
The legislative package will end tax breaks for Chinese stocks, restrict sanctioned Chinese companies’ access to U.S. capital markets, increase transparency on risks to American corporations, and reduce exposure to these risks for retail investors and other Americans saving for retirement.
CPA welcomed a petition filed by five national labor unions with the U.S. Trade Representative requesting an investigation into China’s predatory trade actions in the shipbuilding sector.
For too long, federal tax and trade policy incentivized the offshoring of production and good-paying manufacturing jobs to countries like China.
“Our tax code is supposed to support American manufacturers in building out genuine domestic supply chains. It shouldn’t be exploited by the Chinese Communist Party,” said Brown.
Despite the best efforts of Ambassador Tai and others, it’s time for our lawmakers and the administration to take punitive action and address Mexico’s blatant disregard of the trade agreement.
Owl Labs of Massachusetts may look like an American company, but other than the U.S.-based venture capital that funds it, and the intellectual property behind it, their 360-degree video cameras are made in China.
The Nippon Steel proposed acquisition of U.S. Steel has the United Steelworkers Union (USW) worried that, eventually, integrated steel mills will be closed in favor of imports from Japan.
