The chapter’s key priorities include:

  • Opposing Harmful Offshore Wind Projects: Fighting to protect New Jersey’s coastline, economy, and communities from foreign-owned wind farms that threaten local industries and natural resources.
  • Economic Freedom: Cutting taxes and reducing regulations to empower families and small businesses.
  • Good Governance: Increasing transparency to eliminate corruption in state government.
  • Strengthening Public Safety and Education: Advancing policies that support law enforcement, secure communities, and give parents a stronger voice in their children’s education.

Team

Michael John Donohue

Chair of AFPI-New Jersey

Matthew T. Rooney

Executive Director of AFPI-New Jersey

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Policy | January 8, 2025

Tales From the Swamp: How Federal Bureaucrats Resisted President Trump

American democracy operates on the principle of government by the consent of the governed. Americans regularly elect the president and Members of Congress. However, difficult-to-fire career employees with entrenched job security—not political appointees who serve at the discretion of the president—perform most federal work. These employees’ jobs do not depend on election outcomes. Career employees thus exercise federal power without adequate transparency and democratic accountability.
Research Report | November 22, 2024

Middlemen Favor Unaffordable Prescription Drugs

Over the past 10 years, Americans have spent increasingly more on expensive brand-name prescription drugs.
Issue Brief | October 25, 2024

Eliminating Unnecessary Degree Requirements from Public Sector Careers

Degree inflation—the practice of adding education requirements to jobs that were previously open to any applicants with the necessary skills—has contributed to reduced labor productivity, delayed workers’ entrance into the workforce, and saddled millions of Americans with unnecessary student loan debt.

Fact Sheet | September 30, 2024

Removing Barriers to Work for New Jersey’s Military Spouses

Every state requires people looking to work in certain fields to receive government approval to do so, in the form of an occupational license. States differ on which occupations they license and what they require from workers to earn a license, but most require hundreds of hours of training and extensive education, exams, and fees.
Research Report | January 29, 2024

Accountability in America’s Public Schools

Despite mandated accountability measures to foster academic improvement, student academic perfor-mance in public schools has reached a 30-year low. Students consistently fall below proficiency levels set by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in core subjects.

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