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U.S. Union Members And Leaders Are Not Always On The Same Page

The data behind the Teamsters’ refusal to endorse a candidate may be more widespread than we think

U.K.’s Labour Party Gets Learning Right

What U.S. leaders can learn about promoting opportunity pluralism

To Honor Labor, Rethink Unions

A former labor and business leader describes a better future for organized labor

Is The U.S. Workforce Prepared to Reindustrialize?

Effective industrial policy will require changes to business as usual

Workers Deserve Real Power. Unions Aren’t the Best Way to Get It.

On the first night of the Democratic National Convention, six labor leaders took the stage to endorse the party’s nominee. “Kamala Harris will keep fighting for workers,” promised the general president of Read more…

Rebuilding worker power

Nearly every major Western intellectual tradition until the market fundamentalism of the late 20th centuryunderstood the importance of organized labor to the well-being of workers and a well-functioning marketeconomy. An Read more…

Can the G.O.P. Really Become the Party of Workers?

The most surprising moment of this year’s Republican National Convention may have come on its first night, when the president of the Teamsters railed in prime time against corporate elites Read more…

American Shuntō

Japanese lessons on the limits of symbolic outreach to labor.

Open Borders Economists Have Gone Awfully Quiet About Wages

The pretextual arguments have always been political—not economic.

Table Stakes

The key policy commitments that citizens should expect from any leader serious about tackling each challenge

Freedom from Economic Fear

Defending the American economy against an economic-liberty killer: fear.

Surprising Consensus on the Productivity Problem

A new AEI paper reaches the same conclusion as American Compass: Rising inequality for American workers is a problem.

Oren Cass & Steve Moore Debate Immigration and Wages

Oren Cass and the Heritage Foundation’s Steve Moore debate immigration and wages at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s American Economic Forum.

This Conservative Wants to Change the Way Republicans Think About Economics

In an extended New York Times interview, Oren Cass discusses the importance of labor to conservative economics.

New Issues 2024 Brief Examines Decline in Worker Power and its Economic Impacts

American Compass today released a new policy brief as part of its Issues 2024 series highlighting the importance of worker power and its decline over the past half century.

Issues 2024: Worker Power

For 50 years, businesses have been finding ways to succeed while offering fewer secure jobs to American workers, leading to surging growth and profits while wages stagnated.

New Survey Shows Most Americans Lack Secure Jobs

Republican support for unions is growing, despite political involvement pushing many workers away from organized labor

Labor Market Not Yet Working for Workers

New data on job quality and worker views on unions

The GOP’s Big Bet on Labor

POLITICO features American Compass’s 2023 GOP Voter Survey in a discussion about shifting opinions of labor on the right.

Oren Cass on the UAW Strike and Manufacturing Productivity

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