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Make student debt dischargeable in bankruptcy instead of canceling loans

Permit workers to administer their own employee benefits through organizations they control

On this episode of Policy in Brief, Oren Cass and Chris Griswold discuss a proposal to allow workers to administer their own employee benefits through organizations they control.

With the Small Business Innovation & Research program, Congress helped build many of the nation’s most innovative firms.

Levy a tariff on all imports that rises until trade is balanced

Make American goods more attractive to foreigners than American assets

Balance trade by requiring importers to purchase credits from exporters.

On this episode of Policy in Brief, Oren Cass is joined by American Compass policy director Chris Griswold to discuss how U.S. trade fell so far out of balance—and some ideas for how to rebalance it.

“Bad competitiveness” results in weakening demand, which either reduces global production or requires surging debt to maintain demand and production at its existing level. Perhaps that rings a bell, because it is the world we live in.

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.

The question of who would pursue non-college pathways, if they were offered, is one that has bedeviled education reform debates for decades.

President Reagan negotiated a quota on Japanese imports that bought Detroit time to retool and spurred massive foreign investment in a new manufacturing base in the South.

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.

Congress should create a publicly provided online age verification system that would allow any person to privately and securely demonstrate their age online.