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An important insight deep within the structure of the Fisc is that much of the trouble ailing families right now is not strictly poverty; it’s fatherlessness.

An injection of cash to poor families might be less of a handout and more of a hand up, acting as much-needed capital for families by allowing them to afford the things necessary to stay employed.

Lump-sum payments will decrease the incentive for fraud while eliminating the inequity regarding length of pregnancy.

A pro-worker agenda must treat families, not individuals, as the basic units of public policy.

American Compass executive director Oren Cass is included on the 2021 list of 250 most influential public policy experts and advocates.

Executive director Oren Cass joins CNBC to discuss the unemployment rate.

With few “marriageable” men employed in the kinds of decent-paying occupations that make them attractive as potential husbands, marriage has slipped out of reach for far too many poor and working-class Americans.

If families are people, and corporations are people, it stands to reason that families should be allowed to incorporate and file their taxes accordingly.

It is time for conservatives to look beyond discrete proposals and to approach family policy as an orienting goal that can enable other political goals and as an investment in the nation’s long-term prosperity.

The American health care system is far from family-friendly. One feature stands out: employer-sponsored health insurance.

Where do families want to live? Urbanists will point out that the high price of housing in walkable, city neighborhoods indicates that demand is especially high. Suburbanists will note that very few families live in those places, and that most new houses—even during the urban renaissance of the 21st century—are built at the suburban fringe. Read more…

K-12 education is the single greatest family policy lever at our disposal.

Regularly lost in the debate over family policy are those children separated from their families or without a permanent home—namely, the hundreds of thousands of American children in the nation’s child welfare system.

Oren Cass and Wells King have added their proposal, a parenting supplement they call the Fisc, to a list of ideas designed to reduce the fiscal burden on parents relative to non-parents. One of the most hotly debated features of the Fisc is a “work requirement,” in that the annual allowance cannot exceed prior year Read more…

American Compass executive director Oren Cass joins Consumers’ Research to discuss how underestimating inflation is depriving consumers of the American Dream.

Addressing our fertility and family-formation crises will require us to push the boundaries of family policy and embrace a whole-of-society approach.

Writers and analysts from across the right-of-center apply a family-focused lens to contemporary policy challenges.

Let’s peg the federal minimum wage to state median wages.