A Home Security System
This paper focuses on two related areas where public policy places homemakers at a significant disadvantage: access to social insurance systems and employer benefits.
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American Compass, Moving the Needle
Oren Cass’s pro-worker, pro-family think tank has exercised surprising influence on the broader conservative movement.
Liberty and Tariffs for All
Free international trade is not a vital tenet of liberty in the American tradition; it was adopted, in Burtka’s words, “for the worst reasons and delivered the worst results.”
Don’t Trade on Me
America grew wealthy not from free trade, but behind some of the world’s most imposing protectionist barriers. In fact, the principal tradition of free trade one finds in American history was born in the Confederate South.
The Successful Policy That Progressives Love To Hate
American Compass executive director Oren Cass discusses a recent report analyzing the effects of welfare reform on child poverty, and how progressives fail to understand the importance of work in designing social safety net programs.
After Student-Debt Relief, America Must Move Beyond ‘College for All’
American Compass research director Wells King argues for building real alternatives to the “college-for-all” education pipeline in the wake of Biden’s misguided student loan forgiveness.
Talkin’ (Policy) Shop: The Workforce Training Grant
On the inaugural episode of Policy in Brief, American Compass executive director Oren Cass is joined by policy director Chris Griswold to discuss the Workforce Training Grant, a proposal to create a meaningful alternative pathway to college.
Why Is the Republican Party Falling Out of Love With Big Business?
American Compass’s Oren Cass joins the Checks and Balances podcast to discuss the conservative approach toward big business and shifting orthodoxies in right-of-center economic philosophy.
Rebuilding from the College Catastrophe Starts Here
The problem that the American Workforce Act aims to solve is simple, but deadly serious: In American education, all roads lead to college.
Policy Brief: Workforce Training Grant
Congress should create a Workforce Training Grant—a $10,000-per-year grant to employers for each trainee engaged in on-the-job training.
Servants No Longer
American Compass policy director Chris Griswold explores the relationship between worker power and the roots of civic friendship.
Republicans Have Great Ideas. It’s Time To Start Talking About Them
American Compass executive director Oren Cass makes the case for a GOP focus on substantive policy ideas, prioritizing efforts that benefit working families.
Rethinking Conservative Economics With Oren Cass
Oren Cass joins Newsweek opinion editor Josh Hammer to discuss the Right’s shifting approach to political economy and President Biden’s disastrous student loan forgiveness initiative.
Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness is Wrong. Here’s How to Handle College Debt Instead.
America has turned higher ed into a lavishly expensive sacred cow, and now we’re all footing the bill. Let’s make college debt boring again, argues Oren Cass.
State Capacity in Short Supply: Assessing the Biden Administration’s Industrial Strategy
American Compass’s Wells King and Chris Griswold evaluate the Biden administration’s approach to industrial strategy and what it shows about the policy failures of the established ruling class.
What Republicans Should Do if They Win Big This Fall
American Compass’s Oren Cass and Chris Griswold describe how a conservative agenda focused on workers and their families could create new avenues for progress in a divided government.
Oren Cass on Student Loan Debt
Oren Cass joins Paul Ollinger for a discussion of student debt, “college-for-all,” and how to rethink our approach to education in the U.S.
The Chips Act Debate Shows How Far the Republicans Have Moved
FINANCIAL TIMES—Oren Cass argues that conservative interest in rebuilding America’s industrial base may finally be overtaking free-market fundamentalism on the right.
The Problem Joe Manchin Highlighted Is Crucial for America’s Future
Oren Cass makes the case for serious permitting reform, without which it will take years to spend any money building climate-related projects, costing us money and harming the environment.
Conservative Family Policy Must Be Conservative
On family policy, conservatives should avoid two extremes: rebutting any use of government, and assuming that trillions can be spent without negative repercussions.
