How To Build Family Policy For The Working-Class Majority
Michael Lind’s Home Building essay on family policy for the working class majority is adapted by the Daily Caller.
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On Family Policy, Proceed with Great Caution
The new American Compass “Home Building” blueprint on policies for buttressing the American family was thrilling to read, and it reminded me of the earnestness and passion of me and my friends 35 years ago.
Oren Cass and Matt Bruenig Debate Child Benefit Reform
Executive director Oren Cass and Matt Bruenig of the People’s Policy Project join the Solidarity Policy Podcast to debate child benefits, the Romney plan, and more.
Cultural Policy for 2021
American society suffers from de-composition and de-consolidation. This isolation makes us less resilient and more vulnerable. And it also makes us less stable and more susceptible to ideological infections.
The Once and Future Right
Executive Director Oren Cass joins The Dispatch Podcast to discuss the mission of American Compass, the future of conservatism, and family policy.
The Left’s Welfare Extremism
Executive director Oren Cass on how left-wing critics of our family-benefit proposal are sorely misguided.
Oren Cass on Balancing Conservative Principles With Working-Class Priorities
Executive Director Oren Cass joins The Federalist Radio Hour to discuss how conservatives can reconcile their principles with the priorities of the working class.
Oren Cass: New Data Reveals Families Desperate for Cash Assistance To Help Rear Children
Executive director Oren Cass joins Saagar Enjeti and Krystal Ball to discuss the 2021 Home Building survey on what kind of support American families want from the government.
Why Parents Need the Flexibility of Cash Payments More Than Universal Child Care
W. Bradford Wilcox cites the findings of American Compass’s 2021 Home Building Survey in a piece about why families prefer cash payments to subsidized child care programs.
Do They Even Know Who They Represent?
It would be nice if politicians did their job and represented us. Half the time I don’t even know if they know the first thing about the places they claim to represent, much less the people who live here. What is the point of having a democracy if nobody will listen to you?
A Family Tree: The Past and Present of Public Policy and the American Family
The American family may have entered a period of crisis, but a rich conservative literature—from political philosophy to sociology to journalism—can help us to better understand the root causes and guide policy reforms to the family’s renewal.
COVID’s Toll on the American Dream
The American Dream—people have hung on to those three little words for decades, passed them down for generations. But it’s hard to see how we can believe in the dream right now.
Introducing the Edgerton Essays
The goal of these essays is to help inform policymakers and pundits about what matters most and why to the vast majority of Americans who have no day-to-day connection to our political debates.
Government Spending Is Already Too Burdensome
Self-styled conservatives should not be aiding and abetting the push for class-warfare taxation by adding to the collection of proposed tax-rate increases on workers, investors, entrepreneurs, and business owners.
Put Working Families at the Front of the Line for Help
American Compass executive director Oren Cass argues that a policy that sustains people in joblessness is not ultimately anti-poverty.
Let Them Eat Daycare
Our policy debates center on helping working families, but they routinely fail to capture those families’ preferences for their own lives or for policies that would help them most. Proposals Read more…
1980 All Over Again? In Search of the Right Analogy for the 2020 Election
The 2020 election bears the most resemblance to 1980, which ushered a transformed Republican Party into the White House and Senate for the first time since 1954.
Don’t Federalize Family Policy
I want to find new ways for conservative governing principles to help the family, but I want to avoid labeling a policy as “conservative” simply because it purports to aid families.
Single Mothers’ Attitudes About Work and Motherhood
Gina, a single mother of three in southwestern Ohio, recently told me that being a mom saved her from despair and addiction. “It’s my life. It’s everything to me. It’s Read more…
When Farmers Are Not Farmers and Shepherds Are Not Shepherds
For too long we have let memories we cherish—of farms and farmers, of homesteads and pioneers, of cowboys on the range and Native Americans hunting the great herds—disguise how much we have lost and abandoned.
