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.
POLICY PRIORITIES
- Tax Relief for America’s Middle Class
- Incentivize Job Creation for American Workers
- Promote Wage Growth
- Incentivize Onshoring
- Ensure Access to Capital
Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Review: Missed Opportunity to Put America First
The Costs and Burdens of Inflation and Its Relationship to Policy
Cale Clingenpeel and Aaron Hedlund
The Big Government Socialism Bill’s Harm to Small Businesses Across America
Big Government Socialism Bill and Small Businesses
America’s pro-work, pro-family consensus is under attack
Cale Clingenpeel and Dr. Laurie Todd-Smith
Center for American Prosperity Overview
The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
The Biden Administration’s Proposed Global Minimum Tax
Re-establishing our Energy Independence
America First Policy Institute Statement on February Jobs Report
America First Policy Institute Statement on Inflation Report
America First Policy Institute Statement on January Jobs Report
AFPI Announces Jim Carter Will Direct Its Center For American Prosperity
The Leadership of the America First Policy Institute Provided the Following Reactions and Insight Into the State of America One Year Into the Biden Administration
Statement: President & CEO Brooke L. Rollins on the 4th Anniversary of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA)
How the Conservative ‘Save America Coalition’ Helped Kill Build Back Better
Senator Manchin Delivers Christmas Early
AFPI Statement on Historic Inflation Rates
Top 13 Reasons Americans Oppose the Big Government Socialism Bill
Statement from Save America Coalition’s Co-Chairman Steve Moore on the Big Government Socialism Bill
Job Growth in September Stalls, Marking the Worst Month of Growth in 2021
Cale Clingenpeel
Employment Surges in July but Inflation Continues to Erode Wage Gains for Americans
Cale Clingenpeel
STATEMENT: BROOKE ROLLINS, AFPI’S PRESIDENT & CEO, ON THE BUDGET RESOLUTION
AFPI & TPPF: BIDEN ADMINISTRATION MOVES TO THWART CRITICAL PERMITTING REFORM—SIDESTEPPING FEDERAL TRANSPARENCY AND CRIPPLING THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN INFRASTRUCTURE
Unemployment benefits and inflation contribute to the growing worker shortage.
Cale Clingenpeel
PRESIDENT & CEO BROOKE ROLLINS ISSUES STATEMENT ON THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S 2022 BUDGET PROPOSAL
STATEMENT: BROOKE ROLLINS ON APRIL JOBS REPORT
High Inflation Continues to Hurt American Families
Mike Faulkender
Correcting the Record on Job Creation
James Carter
The Biden Recession Is Coming
Mike Faulkender
Happy First Birthday AFPI!
The Biden Price Hike Continues its Assault on Americans’ Wallets
Can Americans Afford Spring Break in Joe Biden’s America?
James Carter and Mya Phillips
Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Review: Missed Opportunity to Put America First
American families feel like they’re falling behind. They’re right.
Michael Faulkender
Evaluating the Biden Administration’s Budget Proposals
James Carter
Evaluating the Biden Administration’s Budget Proposals
James Carter
Producer Price Inflation Hits Double Digits
Michael Faulkender
Sarah Bloom Raskin’s Radical Climate Change Agenda for the Federal Reserve
Miles Johnson
Judging the Omnibus by the Numbers
James Carter
Americans’ Inflation Nightmare Continues
The America First Agenda Podcast Episode Two: Larry Kudlow
Building Back Stagflation
Andy Puzder
The Biden Administration’s Inflation Tax Continues to Take a Bite Out of Americans’ Paychecks
The Key To Prosperity
James Carter and Robert Meyne
Americans Return to Work as Biden Administration Work Disincentives Expire, but Jobs Remain Over 7 million Below Trend
Inside the Economic Numbers: Despite Growth, Significant Headwinds Remain
Progressives Are the New Regressives
An Examination of the First Year of Biden’s Presidency
Back to the Future with the Highest Inflation in Four Decades
Op-Ed: President Biden is blaming everyone else for surging inflation
Jim Carter and Jeffrey Schmidt
Stumbling into the New Year with More Disappointing Jobs Growth
Happy 4th Anniversary TCJA
Senator Manchin Delivers Christmas Early
Runaway Inflation and The Big Government Socialism Bill
Will High Inflation Wreck The Federal Budget? Inconceivable!
James Carter
Inflation is Continuing to Rapidly Erode Americans’ Paychecks
Invasive IRS Provision in the Big Government Socialism Bill: Six Problems for American Families
Supporting Working Parents, Not Providing Free Income, Is the Way to Help Families Get Ahead
Op-Ed: America deserves better than what Congressional Democrats are offering
Brooke Rollins in The Washington Times
Op-Ed: Biden’s Race to Undo Trump Environmental Reforms Violates Public Trust
Rick Perry and Jason Isaac in Real Clear Energy
Blog: America needs a real infrastructure plan, and this legislation doesn’t cut it.
Op-Ed: Republicans Will Own Inflation from Infrastructure Trap
Ken Blackwell in Breitbart
Op-Ed: Setting the Record Straight on Wealth Inequality
Cale Clingenpeel & Tyler Goodspeed in National Review | Capital Matters
Op-Ed: African Americans and the Economy under Trump
Scott Turner in National Review
Op-Ed: National Review: The Beginning of a Nationwide Natural Experiment in Labor Markets
Cale Clingenpeel in National Review | Capital Matters
Op-Ed: New York Sun: Passing S1 Plus Filibuster Repeal Would Mean It’s ‘Katy, Bar the Door’
Larry Kudlow in the NY Sun
Op-Ed: New York Sun: Squad’s Success in Moving Democrats on Israel Portends Trouble on Other Issues
Larry Kudlow
Op-Ed: New York Sun - Is Jimmy Carter Back, or What?
Larry Kudlow
Op-Ed: Washington Times: Charting the small business comeback
Linda McMahon in Real Clear Policy
VIDEO: Kudlow, Rollins, and McMahon Officially Announce the Formation of AFPI
Larry Kudlow serves as Vice Chair of the Board for AFPI and as Chair of the Center for American Prosperity. He is also the host of “Kudlow” on Fox Business and “The Larry Kudlow Show” on WABC Talk Radio. He previously served as Director of the National Economic Council under President Donald Trump, where he led the domestic and global economic policy agendas. Throughout the years, Kudlow has hosted several popular television shows with an economic focus, had a successful career on Wall Street, and worked as an associate director in the Office of Management and Budget during the Reagan Administration. He began his career at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as a staff economist. Kudlow describes himself as a Reagan supply-sider and is a staunch advocate for free markets, tax cuts, and deregulation.
“Free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity.”
LARRY KUDLOW
Beatrice Brooke was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and serves as a Policy Analyst in the Center for American Prosperity and the Center for Energy Independence for AFPI. Brooke recently finished her service at the United States Department of Commerce, where she served as a Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary on policy matters including international trade, economic development, weather operations, and commercial space enterprises. In this role, she supported the Deputy Secretary, who served as the Department’s Chief Operating Officer of a budget of more than $15.2 billion, 12 operating units, and over 47,000 employees. She is a graduate of Northwestern University, where she majored in Political Science and International Studies and also studied Spanish and Italian. Brooke grew up in Washington, D.C., and she enjoys reading about history, traveling, and studying languages—and has recently begun learning Korean.
“The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.”
Thomas Jefferson
Jim Carter is from Kansas City, Missouri, and serves as Director of the Center for American Prosperity at AFPI. Previously, Jim was Vice President of Government Affairs at Emerson, a diversified global manufacturing and technology company. Mr. Carter also served in the Bush Administration, as a senior staff member on the Senate Budget Committee, and as an advisor to several U.S. senators. Jim has served in senior roles at the Department of Labor, Department of Treasury, and National Economic Council at the White House. He also received the Secretary of the Treasury’s “Exceptional Service Award.” Mr. Carter has written more than 140 articles on fiscal policy, economics, and other public policy matters for leading publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Investor’s Business Daily, Politico, The Hill, and USA Today. He is a frequent speaker and has taught at The George Washington University and at Johns Hopkins University. Carter also serves on the board of the National Capital Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. He holds degrees from George Mason University and Truman State University. He appeared in season three of House of Cards, playing a U.S. Senator.
“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
Thomas Sowell
Cale Clingenpeel is from Anchorage, Alaska and serves as a Visiting Fellow at AFPI. Clingenpeel most recently served as the Senior Advisor to the Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). Clingenpeel started at the CEA in 2018 and worked predominately on tax, energy, labor, international & domestic macroeconomic policy, and the economic response to the pandemic. Previously Clingenpeel helped lead an Alaska-based nonprofit organization focused on U.S. Arctic policy, worked on various Alaska political campaigns, conducted field research in East Africa for a development project, and even spent a summer training 70 Iditarod racing sled dogs on a remote Alaska glacier. Clingenpeel holds an M.A. in International Economics and Finance from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a B.S. in International Economics from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. Clingenpeel is an Alaskan through and through and is most at home among the mountains whether he’s skiing, running, fishing, camping, or mushing.
“If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.”
Orville Wright
Luke J. Lindberg is from Harrisburg, South Dakota, and serves as a Senior Fellow in the Center for American Prosperity at AFPI. Previously, he served as the Chief of Staff and Chief Strategy Officer at the Export-Import Bank during the Trump Administration. As a national leader in trade and export policy, Lindberg sits on the Board of Directors for the National Association of District Export Councils and advises several companies on securing America’s supply of critical minerals and rare earths. He works for Sanford Health, the premier rural health system in America. Lindberg has a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Public Policy, both from the University of Maryland. He and his wife, Brittany Thune Lindberg, have two great kids, John Mark and Lucy.
“America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.”
Henry Kissinger