Before the government shutdown, the rollout of Obamacare and the Treasury Department being on the brink of exceeding its borrowing authority under the debt ceiling, the administration's top priority was climate change – back in August. The President wanted to use the August recess to pressure Congress to get on board with one of his key priorities. While health care reform was passed during the President's first term, he's faced the opposition of the Tea Party and the House and Senate Republican leadership in implementing his plan. His other priority was cap and trade and carbon reduction – an agenda which also did not result in legislation. Thus, the President rolled out a new carbon reduction plan this summer that began with an EPA dire...
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From WPI Consulting
Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.