The Nation Supporting the Family
Conservatives of every ideological stripe agree: The key to a healthy, well-functioning society is strong families. Families are where children are born, raised, and formed into the adults they will Read more…
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Safe Social Media
Many of social media’s core features, from public display of private information to algorithmic targeting to easily available harmful content, are especially dangerous for children. Widespread and public image-sharing enables Read more…
Online Age Verification
Americans are beginning to reach a vital consensus that social media is harming children. Children who use social media are more likely to suffer from anxiety, depression, and self-harm, and Read more…
Homemaker Benefits
American entitlement programs are designed to support workers and provide only limited coverage for spouses who are not full-time workers themselves. For instance, stay-at-home parents do not receive credits toward Read more…
Family Income Supplemental Credit
Making ends meet has become much harder for American families. Decades of stagnating wages have left the typical worker unable to attain middle-class security. Nearly half of parenting-age Americans report Read more…
An Introduction to Supportive Communities
Strengthening the institutions that allow markets to deliver on their promise Americans are more than just economic actors, trading goods and services, constantly seeking their own financial advantage. They live Read more…
Geographic Inequality
One of the central economic and social challenges of our time is widening inequality over the past generation between superstar cities and their surrounding areas on one hand and smaller Read more…
A Strategy of National Developmentalism
The objectives of American conservatism are unchanging and necessary—strong, self-reliant families and a strong, self-reliant nation. The economic program of American conservatism should promote those goals. Tragically, for the past Read more…
Capital Flows Are the Core Concern
With the demise of the Bretton Woods system in 1971, countries around the world began to open their markets to foreign investment, and the U.S. dollar emerged as the reserve Read more…
NEPA Repeal
The National Environmental Policy Act of 1970 (NEPA) is infamous for imposing red tape on energy and infrastructure projects and triggering environmental reviews for other projects that require federal permitting Read more…
National Development Bank
Around the world, the United States has helped to establish development banks and fund large infrastructure and industrial projects. Dozens of national development banks worldwide have successfully deployed trillions of Read more…
Pre-Competitive R&D Consortia
The United States has lost its position of global leadership in advanced manufacturing and innovation, surpassed in fields like semiconductors, aerospace, and telecommunications by other nations that have pursued global Read more…
Local Content Requirements
For decades, policymakers and Wall Street promoted the idea that goods should be made wherever is cheapest, regardless of the effect on our national industrial base. Low-cost imports, made artificially Read more…
A Return to Corporate Investment
Financialization is a blight on capitalism. In that system, the corporate sector is supposed to provide the large-scale capital investment that drives economic growth. Financialization inverts the corporate sector’s role, Read more…
Bringing Back American Investment
The run on Silicon Valley Bank in March 2023 was a shock to both policymakers and business leaders, revealing previously unknown fragilities within the banking system. But the significance of Read more…
Share Buyback Ban
Traditional capitalism, in which firms raise capital from investors and use it to grow their businesses, while returning some share of the profits as dividends, works brilliantly to deliver economic Read more…
Financial Transaction Tax
Healthy financial markets allocate capital to vital, long-term value creation; unhealthy ones foster unproductive speculation and market churn. Good financial regulation and tax policy can tell the difference. Unfortunately, in Read more…
Public Pension Accountability
The $5 trillion in assets controlled by state and local pension systems play a prominent role in U.S. financial markets, for instance as the largest source of capital for private Read more…
Pro-Worker Bankruptcy Reform
Much financial engineering aims to convert the real economy’s activity into derivative products with risk-versus-return profiles that will appeal to particular investors. This has some value, when the result is Read more…
