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Half a decades’ worth of family pictures, my banking app, and a recent, highly charged text stream debating holding calls at the Super Bowl. That’s a starting list of everything on my phone without even getting to the second screen of apps. Hundreds of millions of other Americans store personal information on their phone too. […]
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Americans for Prosperity is focused on advancing policies that improve the lives of the American people, allowing us all to become more prosperous. Given the continuing challenge posed by coronavirus and the policy responses adopted to combat it, it’s critical for government at all levels to pursue reforms that empower us to recover stronger. AFP […]
Lawmakers reintroduced the PRO Act late last week, this time to a Congress and president more receptive to the bill than in years prior. This bill would be a disaster for America’s workforce, which is why it should be rejected again. The PRO Act would, among other things, potentially eliminate independent contracting for millions of workers, and reclassify those workers as traditional employees under the National Labor Relations Act. Proponents claim that reclassifying independent […]
Independent contracting has given Paige Cerulli of Plainfield, Massachusetts, the opportunity to choose her own hours and contracts that suit her health needs, purchase her own home, write a novel and poetry in her free time, and make more money than she ever did as a full-time employee. Put simply, she is doing well for herself as a freelance writer. But some in Congress want to solve that “problem.” Under the PRO Act, lawmakers are attempting to classify many independent contractors as employees under […]
Arlington, Va. – Congressional Democrats are proposing legislation in the current COVID-19 relief package to make more Americans eligible for government subsidies to help cover the cost of health coverage that is unaffordable. According to Axios, “Notably absent from all of this are policies that would meaningfully reduce the actual cost of care.” “Increasing subsidies just […]
Overcoming coronavirus and restoring a healthy economy is a top priority for all Americans. Millions have suffered because of the damage caused by the pandemic and the policies that came with it. Recovering stronger will require laser focus on defeating the virus itself — helped by vaccines and more effective treatments — and setting up the conditions in which […]
On Friday, Feb. 5 – a day in which the United States logged nearly 125,000 new COVID-19 cases and more than 3,550 deaths – the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it would wait more than three weeks to review Johnson & Johnson’s request for emergency use of its coronavirus vaccine. The company submitted its […]
As the vaccine distribution plan makes steady gains in fighting COVID-19, Americans must now find innovative solutions to help the country recover stronger from the economic pain wrought by the pandemic. Americans for Prosperity Deputy Director of Government Affairs Thomas Fletcher met with AFP President Tim Phillips, Stand Together Vice President of Economic Opportunity Akash Chougule, and policy fellow Clint Woods met Jan. 29 to discuss what some of those reforms could look like. Phillips began this […]
