The Commerce Department reported Thursday the economy grew a puny 0.5 percent in the first quarter of 2016, following the nearly as bad 1.4 percent of 2015’s fourth quarter. The cover of this week’s Economist magazine reads, “Could She Fix It?” – the “she” being Hillary Clinton and the “it” being the economy. It’s an…
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The 2016 Election Has Left Innovators Asking: Where the Heck is Tech?
AUSTIN, Texas – Last summer, when Julie Samuels started thinking about her SXSW panel on tech policy, the presidential election was just beginning. At the time, she envisioned that the panel would be an opportunity to walk through a whole host of tech issues that would surely be in the political spotlight by the time the…
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One Chart Shows that President Obama is (Unfortunately) Winning the War on Coal
President Barack Obama is winning his regulatory war on coal, even though public opinion supports it as a beneficial part of America’s energy mix. It’s not often that a presidential campaign moment is applicable eight years later. In 2008, then-candidate President Barack Obama told The San Francisco Chronicle, if elected president, “if somebody wants to…
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EPA Doesn’t Check to See if Its Expensive Regulations are Working
Federal regulators write a lot of regulations—over 500 just in October 2015—but they don’t check to see if those regulations are working, researchers find. Sofie Miller of The George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center looked at 22 federal regulations costing $100 million or more annually. “Of the 22 rules we examined, not a single one included a…
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It’s Time to Lift the Ban on Oil Exports
Contrary to what some U.S. energy policies suggest, it’s not 1975. Americans aren’t lining up around the block to put gas in their cars. World markets aren’t being rocked by spiking prices. Energy isn’t a scarce resource in the United States–in fact, it’s an abundant one. So why are we stuck with an energy policy…
Featured Blog, Thomas J. Donohue
Honoring the American Workforce
Labor Day is a small but meaningful way to acknowledge the immeasurable contributions of the American workforce. The ideas, talents, work ethic, and sheer industry of our nation’s workers power our economy, drive innovation, and help keep America the land of opportunity. So U.S. employers are committed to ensuring that employees are fulfilled in their…