How To Build Family Policy For The Working-Class Majority
Michael Lind’s Home Building essay on family policy for the working class majority is adapted by the Daily Caller.
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On Family Policy, Proceed with Great Caution
The new American Compass āHome Buildingā blueprint on policies for buttressing the American family was thrilling to read, and it reminded me of the earnestness and passion of me and my friends 35 years ago.
Oren Cass and Matt Bruenig Debate Child Benefit Reform
Executive director Oren Cass and Matt Bruenig of the People’s Policy Project join the Solidarity Policy Podcast to debate child benefits, the Romney plan, and more.
Cultural Policy for 2021
American society suffers from de-composition and de-consolidation. This isolation makes us less resilient and more vulnerable. And it also makes us less stable and more susceptible to ideological infections.
The Leftās Welfare Extremism
Executive director Oren Cass on how left-wing critics of our family-benefit proposal are sorely misguided.
Oren Cass: New Data Reveals Families Desperate for Cash Assistance To Help Rear Children
Executive director Oren Cass joins Saagar Enjeti and Krystal Ball to discuss the 2021 Home Building survey on what kind of support American families want from the government.
Why Parents Need the Flexibility of Cash Payments More Than Universal Child Care
W. Bradford Wilcox cites the findings of American Compass’s 2021 Home Building Survey in a piece about why families prefer cash payments to subsidized child care programs.
A Family Tree: The Past and Present of Public Policy and the American Family
The American family may have entered a period of crisis, but a rich conservative literatureāfrom political philosophy to sociology to journalismācan help us to better understand the root causes and guide policy reforms to the family’s renewal.
Government Spending Is Already Too Burdensome
Self-styled conservatives should not be aiding and abetting the push for class-warfare taxation by adding to the collection of proposed tax-rate increases on workers, investors, entrepreneurs, and business owners.
Put Working Families at the Front of the Line for Help
American Compass executive director Oren Cass argues that aĀ policy that sustains people in joblessness is not ultimately anti-poverty.
Let Them Eat Daycare
Our policy debates center on helping working families, but they routinely fail to capture those familiesā preferences for their own lives or for policies that would help them most. Proposals Read more…
Don’t Federalize Family Policy
I want to find new ways for conservative governing principles to help the family, but I want to avoid labeling a policy as āconservativeā simply because it purports to aid families.
Single Mothersā Attitudes About Work and Motherhood
Gina, a single mother of three in southwestern Ohio, recently told me that being a mom saved her from despair and addiction. āItās my life. Itās everything to me. Itās Read more…
Toward a Family Wage (Subsidy)
An important insight deep within the structure of the Fisc is that much of the trouble ailing families right now is not strictly poverty; itās fatherlessness.
Is A Child Allowance Pro-Work for Poor Parents?
An injection of cash to poor families might be less of a handout and more of a hand up, acting as much-needed capital for families by allowing them to afford the things necessary to stay employed.
The Social Meaning of Family Benefits
No-strings-attached cash through a child allowance does not sever social ties or lead to the commodification of parenthood. It maintains expectations and parents will earmark for their childās needs.
For Pregnant Mothers, Make Payments Lump-Sum
Lump-sum payments will decrease the incentive for fraud while eliminating the inequity regarding length of pregnancy.
Family Policy for the Working-Class Majority
A pro-worker agenda must treat families, not individuals, as the basic units of public policy.
Making Young Men Marriageable
With few āmarriageableā men employed in the kinds of decent-paying occupations that make them attractive as potential husbands, marriage has slipped out of reach for far too many poor and working-class Americans.
Taxing Families Like Companies
If families are people, and corporations are people, it stands to reason that families should be allowed to incorporate and file their taxes accordingly.
