The proposal has bipartisan support in China-related legislation moving through the Senate By Jeanne Whalen and Abha Bhattarai May 27, 2021 Amazon and other retailers are opposing a bipartisan measure that would require online sellers to clearly state where their products are made, a rule proponents say could help consumers seeking U.S.-made goods. The measure, backed…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today led a coalition letter to Members of the U.S. Senate urging them to pass Senator Tammy Baldwin’s (D-WI) COOL Online Act. This bipartisan legislation would require that country-of-origin labeling (COOL) be clearly and conspicuously stated in any website description of a product. Joining CPA in…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today urged Congress to reject the lobbying efforts of large online retailers and importers like Amazon to remove U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin’s (D-WI) COOL Online Act from the Endless Frontier Act (S. 1260). The bipartisan COOL Online Act passed the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and…
Senators Tammy Baldwin, Chuck Schumer, and others want consumers to know where goods sold online were manufactured. Big Retail wants the language removed from the Endless Frontier Act. What are they so worried about?
Most Americans would be shocked and angered to learn that the same Chinese companies currently building weapons to threaten U.S. troops are also simultaneously raising money in U.S. financial markets. And even more disturbing, Wall Street continues to help the Chinese Communist Party access U.S. financial markets and exploit unwitting American investors. In late 2020,…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) sent a letter to U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, outlining seven serious concerns with his recently introduced Trade Preferences and American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2021. The legislation would update and renew the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) and…
Two Senators, one Democrat and one Republican, make a desperate plea to others in the Senate to get the Attorney General to investigate a meat packing monopoly they say is substituting American beef for cheaper imports. Yet, prices still rising.
Some members of Congress want a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics. Is that enough?
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today released a new economic report that documents for the first time the severe disparity in historical job quality for Black and Hispanic workers compared to the national average for all U.S. workers. The report, “Quantifying Job Quality for U.S., Black, Hispanic, and Asian American Workers,”…
CPA’s Job Quality Index reveals that Black Americans and Hispanic Americans suffer from far worse job quality than the total workforce, as measured by the weekly wages of all U.S. production and nonsupervisory employees. These disparities are due to the decline of high quality jobs such as those in the manufacturing sector and the rise…