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Americans for Prosperity-Florida State Director Skylar Zander | News-Press Imagine you want to open a small music shop, but the state tells you that first you need to do a detailed economic analysis to determine if you can afford to stock your shop with instruments. Or you want to start a lighting business, but the […]
ARLINGTON, VA—Today, Americans for Prosperity (AFP) launched a targeted digital ad campaign urging voters approaching retirement to tell Congress to vote YES on Senator Mike Braun and Rep. Andy Barr’s resolution to stop a Biden rule that could put Americans’ retirement savings at risk. AFP’s digital ad campaign exposes how the Biden Administration’s so-called Environment, Social, […]
On behalf of Americans for Prosperity activists across West Virginia, I urge you to support House Bill 2415, Ban the Box Act. This vote may be recorded in our 2023 session legislative scorecard. Americans for Prosperity believes our criminal justice system should promote both accountability and redemption, which necessitates second chances for individuals with a criminal […]
More than a decade after the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, became law, most states — red and blue alike — have concluded that the law’s offer of federal money to cover Medicaid expansion is just too good to pass up. Medicaid is the joint federal-state program that provides health insurance for low-income […]
“Misinformation” keeps making headlines. Of course, that’s been true pretty much since Adam and Eve struck up a conversation with a snake. “Misinformation” goes along with human beings having the ability to speak. Nonetheless, there has been a renewed attention on misinformation in recent years. The Wall Street Journal recently reported on a federal judge […]
In his State of the Union address last week, President Biden declared: “I ran for president to fundamentally change things, to make sure the economy works for everyone so we can all feel pride in what we do. To build an economy from the bottom up and the middle out, not from the top down.” […]
Tallahassee, Fla. – Americans for Prosperity-Florida State Director Skylar Zander issued the following statement after the announcement by state leadership of a comprehensive tort reform package. “We are excited to see Governor DeSantis, Senate President Passidomo, and House Speaker Renner come together to announce their focus on meaningful judicial reform this year. In order for […]
By Marc Marie, Americans for Prosperity’s Policy Fellow for Regulations In his State of the Union speech, President Joe Biden has reminded Americans that he’s out of touch on high energy prices and divorced from the facts on their causes. Despite his attempts to blame energy prices on Russia’s war with Ukraine, data from the […]
More needs to be done to promote openness and freedom in occupational licensing. Americans for Prosperity-Florida State Director Skylar Zander | The Florida Standard What do barbers, medical professionals, taxidermists, school bus drivers, and manicurists all have in common? They need an occupational license from the state to be allowed to do their job in Florida. […]
