Oren Cass on Fox Businessās Making Money with Charles Payne
Oren Cass joins Fox Business’s Charles Payne to discuss the Cost-of-Thriving Index and economic pressure on American families
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Family Affordability Survey
American families, across parties and classes, broadly share a definition of the middle class and concern with how the economy has made middle-class life harder.
In Post-Roe World, These Conservatives Embrace a New Kind of Welfare
The New York Times features American Compass’s work leading the development of a conservative family policy.
Talkinā (Policy) Shop: A Monthly Family Benefit
In the spirit of the holidays, this episode of Policy in Brief focuses on the family and what public policy can do to support this vital institution.
Policy Brief: A Monthly Family Benefit
Help working families with the costs of raising children
A Nation of Boys at Risk
After decades of intensive effort and investment to create an equitable education system, not least for girls and women, the nation finds itself with a peculiar predicament: It is boys who are falling behind furthest and fastest.
Where Have All the Young Men Gone?
The question of who would pursue non-college pathways, if they were offered, is one that has bedeviled education reform debates for decades.
Talkinā (Policy) Shop: Online Age Verification
On this episode of Policy in Brief, Oren Cass is joined by Chris Griswold to discuss a proposal to create an online age-verification system to keep kids safe online.
Our Politics Needs a Pro-Family Policy Agenda
American Compass research director Wells King joins a statement in support of building a truly pro-family policy agenda.
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.
Conservative Family Policy Must Be Conservative
On family policy,Ā conservatives should avoid two extremes: rebutting any use of government, and assuming that trillions can be spent without negative repercussions.
Recovering a Sense of Papoose
In this weekās Compass Point, Pursuing the Reunification of Home and Work, Erika Bachiochi throws a fascinating curveball into the modern debate over home economics. That debate, to oversimplify, pits the mid-20th-century model of breadwinner-plus-homemaker against the late-20th-century model of the dual-income household.
Pursuing the Reunification of Home and Work
The conflict between responsibilities at home and at work is largely the result of economic transitions to which we stillānearly a century after industrialization and 50 years into the modern feminist movementāhave not adequately responded.
Post-Roe, the GOP Is Stepping Up To Support American Families
American Compass executive director Oren Cass discusses the promising shift on the right-of-center toward supporting generous pro-family benefits like Senator Romneyās Family Security Act 2.0.
Rethinking the Way We Help Families
American Compass research director Wells King joins Inside Sources with Boyd Matheson to discuss pro-family policymaking.
What Family Policy Should Look Like in Post-Roe America
American Compassās Wells King and Brad Wilcox of the Institute for Family Studies and AEI make the case for a conservative embrace of an expanded Child Tax Credit in a post Roe v. Wade world.
Can the Expanded Child Tax Credit Come Back From the Dead?
In a discussion of the potential for a permanent expanded Child Tax Credit, Rachel Cohen highlights American Compass research and Wells Kingās analysis of the political environment.
To Help Children, Democrats Are Going to Have to Reach Across the Aisle
The Niskanen Centerās Samuel Hammond discusses the potential for a bipartisan bill to support families with children, highlighting American Compassās Fisc proposal.
American Institutions and the American Family: A Conversation with Yuval Levin
A robust discussion of how well American institutions are fostering the flourishing of American families, hosted by American Compass and Capita.
Of Snowflakes and Slip-and-Falls
In this weekās Compass Point, The Snowflakes Arenāt Melting, Michael Brendan Dougherty offers a sharp, revisionist account of āsafetyism.ā The term commonly refers to the phenomenon of young people coddled through their childhoods and thus unable to cope with the conflicts and travails of adulthood.
