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Americans want creative policymaking that better supports families, but always with the expectation that families receiving public support are also working to support themselves.

The use and abuse of personal data pose a collective challenge that cannot be solved by individuals.

A review of hedge fund and private equity performance through the COVID-19 market crash.

Our policy debates center on helping working families, but they routinely fail to capture those families’ preferences for their own lives or for policies that would help them most. Proposals Read more…

This paper presents the case for a per-child family benefit that would operate as a form of reciprocal social insurance paid only to working families.

American Compass research director Wells King joins Sam Jacobs to discuss labor unions, the free market, and the proper role of government.

A decentralized and conflicted administration was uniquely inconsistent in its policy actions.

The American Enterprise Institute has just released a new white paper that defends the CARES Act against arguments from the right. Contra deficit hawks and libertarians in Congress, Jay Cost argues that recent deficit-financed economic stimulus falls squarely within the “parameters of Republican orthodoxy on economic conservatism.”

A review of the latest developments in private finance and the latest update to the Returns Counter.

It’s an approach that echoes themes of the recent American Compass statement: a well-functioning system of organized labor should both “render[] much bureaucratic oversight superfluous” and reinforce the benefits of tight labor markets “through economic agency and self-reliance, rather than retreat to dependence on redistribution.”

American Compass’s research director Wells King shares key insights from the “Moving the Chains” policy symposium on the inaugural panel for the Industry Studies Association’s new webinar series.

Few Americans realize how our system of organized labor is an outlier among Western nations. In some European countries, unions attract a greater share of workers and maintain less adversarial relationships with business. A better understanding of these alternative models can guide American policymakers as they address our labor policy challenges.

In its latest public statement, American Compass affirms the enduring importance of organized labor and the need for conservatives to have a stake in its future. It challenges a right-of-center accustomed to dismiss unions to instead reconsider their role in our common life as well as the deeper costs of their absence.

Since at least the inauguration, a central question of this presidency has been whether Trump could cease campaigning and learn to govern.

The “gig” may soon be up for Uber. A judge’s ruling that ride-sharing services must treat their drivers as employees has both Uber and Lyft threatening to discontinue service in California, seemingly conceding that their money-losing business model relies not only on the subsidy of endless investor capital but also the legal arbitrage of ignoring the labor laws followed by others.

Just as American Compass was releasing the Corporate Actual Responsibility project, the New York Times’s DealBook announced its own corporate-responsibility event.