{"id":158,"date":"2009-08-12T21:46:49","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T01:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=158"},"modified":"2009-08-13T10:17:20","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T14:17:20","slug":"new-study-estimates-climate-change-bill-will-cost-2-million-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/158\/new-study-estimates-climate-change-bill-will-cost-2-million-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"New Study Estimates Climate Change Bill Will Cost 2 Million Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If\u00a0the Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade bill (H.R. 2454)\u00a0becomes law, U.S. economic growth could be\u00a0slashed\u00a0by 2.4 percent and\u00a0the\u00a0legislation would\u00a0cost 2 million jobs by 2030.\u00a0 This, according to a recent study\u00a0conducted by the <span>Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and released today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The study, which\u00a0was commissioned by\u00a0the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF), assesses the impact of the Waxman-Markey bill on manufacturing, jobs, energy prices and\u00a0the overall U.S. economy.\u00a0 According to a summary of the study, &#8220;The NAM and ACCF released national data as well as the analysis for 15 industrial states that would be impacted greatly if this or similar legislation is signed into law.\u00a0 The full report, including the data covering the remaining 35 states will be released in the coming weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Senate is expected to take up its version of climate change legislation in September.\u00a0 This latest study is yet another in a growing list of reasons why it shouldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full\u00a0national\u00a0report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accf.org\/media\/docs\/nam\/2009\/National.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Access\u00a0the analysis of each of the 15 states that have released so far <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accf.org\/publications\/126\/accf-nam-study\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If\u00a0the Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade bill (H.R. 2454)\u00a0becomes law, U.S. economic growth could be\u00a0slashed\u00a0by 2.4 percent and\u00a0the\u00a0legislation would\u00a0cost 2 million jobs by 2030.\u00a0 This, according to a recent study\u00a0conducted by the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and released today. The study, which\u00a0was commissioned by\u00a0the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,26,19,27],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-cap-and-trade","tag-climate-change","tag-economy","tag-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}