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Vance Ginn, Ph.D.

Vance Ginn, Ph.D., is an accomplished economist finding free-market solutions that let people prosper. He is founder and president of Ginn Economic Consulting where he provides high-quality research and trusted insights on how to affect change at the federal, state, and local levels. Ginn’s experience includes time in public policy, government, and academia. He is chief economist at Pelican Institute for Public Policy and a senior fellow at several think tanks, including at Americans for Tax Reform, Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), and Young Americans for Liberty.

E. J. Antoni, Ph.D.

E. J. Antoni, Ph.D., EJ Antoni is a Research Fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget. He is also a former economist at the Texas Public Policy Foundation whose research focuses on fiscal and monetary policy.

Antoni’s research has been featured with the Daily Caller, Fox Business, the Wall Street Journal, National Review, the Show-Me Institute, the Heartland Institute, the Arizona Chamber Foundation, FreedomWorks, and the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, where he is a visiting fellow. He has taught courses ranging from labor economics to money and banking.

Antoni earned his master’s and doctorate in economics from Northern Illinois University.

The U.S. House of Representatives’ Build Back Better Act (BBBA) is filled with policies that will burden Americans and benefit special interests. Everything from childcare to gasoline will increase in price, on top of general price inflation. The BBBA will slow the economy, cut jobs, and turn inflation into stagflation.

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