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{{#badges: Koch Exposed|Front groups}}'''Americans for Job Security''' (AJS) is a registered trade group that describes itself as an "independent, bi-partisan, pro-business issue advocacy organization,"<ref name="about">Americans for Job Security, [http://www.savejobs.org/aboutajs.php About], organizational website. Accessed June 23, 2014.</ref> but which appears to engage mainly in election-related activities.<ref name="PRWatch"/> AJS has been described by the Center for Responsive Politics as "pro-Republican", "pro-business", and "established to directly counter labor's influence".<ref name="open">Center for Responsive Politics, [http://www.opensecrets.org/527s/527events.asp?orgid=24 Americans for Job Security, 2004 Election Cycle], ''Open Secrets.org'', accessed October 2007.</ref>
In 2012, AJS was involved in what the Center for Media and Democracy called a dark money shell game related to two California ballot initiatives; two other groups involved in the scheme were found to have engaged in campaign money laundering, paying $1 million in fines.<ref name= "PRWatch"/>
