How Facebook Can Help Rebuild US Manufacturing

By Jeff Ferry, CPA Research Director In a highly polarized nation, Facebook has accomplished the amazing achievement of getting itself intensely disliked by both right and left. The right detests it because its newsfeed has demonstrated a distinctly progressive bias, reflecting the worldview of the majority of its 25,000 youthful employees, while the left resents…

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Infrastructure plan must not succumb to free-trade mythology

In a meeting with House and Senate members this week, President Trumpwas reportedly surprised to learn that his newly released infrastructure plan didn’t include any “Buy America” requirements. The president had issued an executive order last April stating: “It shall be the policy of the executive branch to buy American and hire American.”  Op-ed originally appeared on The…

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CPA Statement on 232 Report on Steel, Aluminum

Washington ~ The Coalition for a Prosperous American (CPA) applauded the Department of Commerce reports, released Friday February 17, recommending import restrictions to combat an unprecedented surge of steel and aluminum imports. The recommendations have previously been submitted to President Trump for action, but were made public today. They include tariffs on steel imports ranging…

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GOP chairman: Trump infrastructure bill could be ready ‘closer to the summer

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster(R-Pa.) said Thursday that an infrastructure bill could be ready “closer to the summer” as he begins the bill-writing process following President Trump‘s infrastructure overhaul rollout.  [ MALLORY SHELBOURNE | February 15, 2018 | The Hill] “Peter DeFazio and I are working on a bill together. And based on our conversations at the White House…

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