The Job Quality Index shows that less lower-wage workers returned to work in April, due in part to generous unemployment benefits, now extended to September. Higher paying jobs, therefore, trumped lower-paying ones last month.
When President Biden laid out his vision for the U.S. economy before Congress on April 28th, he emphasized that rebuilding the U.S. economy should focus on “jobs, jobs, jobs.” The federal government should give preference to U.S.-made products as much as possible. To hammer home the point, Biden added: “there is simply no reason why…
McKinsey has turned the corner on the Asia-centric model of globalization. It’s a “now-or-never” moment for US manufacturing. Here’s where CPA sees eye-to-eye.
Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen has provided an early signal of the Biden administration’s approach on currencies and currency manipulation. The US apparently has little intention of using currencies to address US economic problems, including slow growth, huge trade deficits, pervasive inequality, and a lack of good jobs. The economic analysis in the new…
Recent shortages an example of America’s over-bearing dependence on Chinese supply chains. The time is now to take action to reverses this decades-long headwind to U.S. manufacturing and its labor force.
Biden’s new tax proposal benefits renewable energy. But where tax credits are concerned, can individuals and companies that get those tax credits then use the capital to import green tech from China? What’s stopping them?
The Department of Commerce heard a panel of industry leaders on Thursday discussing the shortage in semiconductors, and asks why we can’t make this stuff at home.