Press Release | Latest Employment Report Shows Minor Decline in U.S. Jobs Quality
JQI Index declines 0.13 percent in February Washington. The monthly U.S. Jobs Quality Index (JQI) issued by the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) and
US Trade Deficit Shrinks to Smallest in Three Years
By Steven L. Byers, PhD and Jeff Ferry The US scored the smallest trade deficit since October 2016 as tariffs slowed the flow of imports
Decoupling from China: CPA’s Award-Winning Economic Analysis
In October 2019, CPA’s Economics team of Jeff Ferry and Steven Byers won the NABE Mennis Award for best economics paper of the year for
Press Release \ Job Quality Instant Report: Job Creation and Job Quality are up in November
Job Quality Instant Report: Job Creation and Job Quality are up in November Total non-farm payroll employment rose by 266,000 jobs in November, substantially above
‘Job quality index’ may help explain why Nevada grows poorer as it grows
Editor’s note: Our Job Quality Index is picked up in Nevada as commentators start to think about how job growth can happen without improving the
Press Release \ CPA Partners on Release of National Jobs Quality Index
Washington. The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today announced the launch of a comprehensive new economic indicator, the US Private Sector Job Quality Index
Historic Launch of US Job Quality Index – Join Us
The US has long provided measures of the quantity of jobs created, but not the quality of those jobs. Our new index (JQI) answers many
Manufacturing Jobs and Income Decline
After the year 2000, US manufacturing employment experienced a rapid, unprecedented decline with the loss of some six million manufacturing jobs. Many commentators have described
Update: Across-the-Board Tariffs on China with Retaliation & Federal Spending Create Over 1 Million Jobs in Five Years
This Working Paper presents the results of a CPA econometric model showing that a permanent tariff on Chinese imports would stimulate the US economy. by Jeff
CPA Study Shows Across-the-Board China Tariff Would Boost US Economy, Create Thousands of Jobs
By Jeff Ferry and Steven L. Byers, PhD Economic modeling results from the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) show that an across-the-board 25% tariff on all
