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A Walk on the Supply Side

Moving Pro-Growth Economics Beyond Tax Cuts

Why Trump Is Right About Tariffs

Taxing imported goods is unpopular with economists, but it could help the U.S. lower the trade deficit, strengthen its industrial base and safeguard national security.

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.

Crop Cash

Support America’s farmers, but not with subsidies

Rebuilding U.S. Industry via Green Transition Makes No Sense

The US needs an industrial finance authority with a long-term commitment to drive both public and private capital, writes Oren Cass.

Issues 2024 Series Explores Key Policy Debates Heading Into 2024 Election

First Issues 2024 brief analyzes the decline in middle-class security

Issues 2024: Middle-Class Security

Stagnating wages have prevented workers from keeping up with the costs of attaining middle-class security in America.

The Future of Capitalism: A Conversation with Glenn Hubbard

This special episode of the American Compass podcast features a wide-ranging conversation between Oren Cass and Glenn Hubbard on the future of capitalism.

Halting Investment in China

Oren Cass discusses why America must disentangle from China to protect its market from subversion by the CCP.

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

Talkin’ (Policy) Shop: GOP Voters and the Realignment

On this episode, Oren and Chris discuss the results of our new poll of GOP primary voters, which shows an economic realignment is well underway.

GOP Primary Voter Poll Shows Pro-Worker Realignment Is Well Underway

As Republican presidential primary candidates prepare to meet tonight to debate the future of the GOP, a new poll shows that their voters have abandoned the party’s traditional focus on Read more…

The New Conservative Voter

A realignment that focuses the Republican Party on pro-worker economic policy is well underway

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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US Republicans Could Finally Win the Argument on Immigration

Political conditions in the US are ripe for rare progress on immigration, writes Oren Cass in the Financial Times.

Reverse Class Psychology

Reagan convinced workers to care about business, but who will teach business owners that labor matters too?

Testimony on “Mapping America’s Supply Chains”

Chris Griswold’s testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce, regarding “Mapping America’s Supply Chains”

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