Policy Priorities
- Tax Relief for America’s Middle Class
- Incentivize Job Creation for American Workers
- Promote Wage Growth
- Incentivize Onshoring
- Ensure Access to Capital
The economic success of the nation is driven by the individual will and genius of free men and women aspiring to achieve their dreams and further prosperity for themselves and their families. Our nation declared its independence in part because of a system of commerce that did not put the prosperity of Americans first and hindered, rather than embraced, the individual aspirations of Americans. In establishing a new Nation, our Founding Fathers sought to unleash the power of entrepreneurship and free enterprise so that Americans “who are possessed of the spirit of Commerce—who see and who will pursue their advantages, may achieve almost anything”.
The America First Policy Institute’s Center for American Prosperity is dedicated to advancing public policy that puts the prosperity of American citizens first, to restoring and preserving the American free enterprise system, to defending American workers and their families, to promoting growth that lifts up forgotten communities, and to celebrating the innovative spirit of the American people. It is through this spirit—when Americans are free to pursue and achieve their dreams—that American prosperity reached unprecedented heights and will continue to achieve more than ever thought possible. The Center for American Prosperity will endeavor to research and educate the American public on policy grounded in the fundamental ideal that free Americans prosper.
Team
The Honorable Larry Kudlow
Vice Chair of the Board and Chair, Center for American Prosperity
The Honorable Michael Faulkender
Vice Chair, Center for American Prosperity & Chief Economist
Aaron Hedlund, Ph.D.
Director of Research; Senior Advisor, Center for America Prosperity
David Vasquez
Policy Analyst for the Center for American Prosperity, the Center for Energy & Environment
Beatrice Brooke
Senior Advisor, Center for American Prosperity and Center for Energy & Environment
James Carter
Senior Fellow, Center for American Prosperity
Cale Clingenpeel
Visiting Fellow
Luke Lindberg
Senior Fellow, Center for American Prosperity
James P. Pinkerton
Senior Fellow, Center for American Prosperity
Jon Sanders
Senior Fellow, Center for American Prosperity
Latest
AFPI Announces Budget Process Reform Contest
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), announced it is holding a national contest to reform America’s badly broken federal budget process. The ‘Budget Reform’ contest will allow the greatest and sharpest economic minds to propose effective policy proposals for getting our nation’s budget process back on the right track.
T.W. Shannon Joins AFPI as Senior Fellow
Washington, D.C. - Today, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) announced that T.W. Shannon will join AFPI as a Senior Fellow for Transportation and Infrastructure at the Center for American Prosperity.
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House Considers Bill to Save Your Bank Account
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) released the following statement from Mike Faulkender, Ph.D., AFPI’s Chief Economist, as the House of Representatives considers the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Anti-Surveillance State Act this week.
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