Failing on Purpose
How We Forgot What Public Education Is For
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Conservative Scholars Rethink Public Education’s Purpose
PRESS RELEASE—Essay series explores how public education is failing in both practice and principle
Munk Debate: Universal Basic Income
Oren Cass debates Scott Santens on proposals for a universal basic income.
Announcing the Common Good Economics Grant Program
The Common Good Economics grant program will support projects rethinking the role that economic policy can play in advancing the common good.
Critics Corner with Vinnie Vernuccio
In this episode, Vinnie Vernuccio joins Oren in the Critics Corner. Vinnie is the president of the Institute for the American Worker and a senior fellow at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
New Survey: Vast Majority Want Expansion of Child Tax Credit Tied to Work
PRESS RELEASE—New American Compass/YouGov survey finds Americans reject unconditional cash benefits outside context of pandemic relief.
Americans Support a Generous Child Benefit Tied to Work
A significant opportunity exists for bipartisan cooperation on a permanent, expanded Child Tax Credit that maintains a connection to work.
New Survey Finds Modern American Workers Want Unions To Stop Playing Politics
American Compass executive director Oren Cass joins The Federalist Radio Hour to discuss the Better Bargain Survey results, what workers want from organized labor, and working-class perspectives on politics.
Future of Work: Futureproof
American Compass’s Oren Cass is featured in a PBS documentary on the future of work and how “future-proof” jobs against robots, AI, racial and economic disparities, and pandemics.
A Better Bargain
Greater Voice, Power, and Support for Workers
New Survey Finds Union Political Activism the #1 Obstacle to U.S. Labor Movement
PRESS RELEASE—Labor policy reforms should be focused on strengthening labor-management cooperation and delivering concrete economic benefits
Not What They Bargained For: A Survey of American Workers
The Better Bargain Survey explores workers’ attitudes about their jobs and organized labor; their appetite for greater support, voice, and power in the workplace; and their reactions to political messages and policy reforms
Oren Cass Joins Politico Playbook Deep Dive Podcast
American Compass’s Oren Cass, “an influential voice in this new economic counterculture,” joins to discuss the conservative debate on economics and the free market.
The Edgerton Essays
Perspectives from the Working Class
Critics Corner with Jon Hartley
On this episode of Critics Corner, Oren is joined by Jon Hartley, a visiting fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity and a former senior policy advisor to the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee.
Oren Cass Joins Moment of Truth Podcast
American Compass executive director Oren Cass joins American Moment’s podcast to discuss economics, working class families, and conservatism.
How a Fight Over Economics Could Shape the GOP’s Post-Trump Future
Eliana Johnson explores the right-of-center’s defining fight for the years to come and highlights American Compass as the organization leading the charge to reinvigorate a true conservative economics.
The New Trustbusters
In a discussion of the new antitrust movement, Zaid Jilani highlights American Compass executive director Oren Cass’s perspective on the conservative approach to corporate power.
New Policy Proposals for Pro-Investment Financial Market Regulation
PRESS RELEASE—A financial transaction tax and other key reforms would confront Coin-Flip Capitalism and shift capital toward productive investment.
A Guide to Private Equity
An in-depth exploration of the private-equity industry: how it works, its poor performance, and its increasing risk.
