Family
Home Building Survey Part I: State of the American Family
Most American families say they’re falling short of the American Dream and need support.
Collections
Home Building
Public Policy for the American Family
The Family Income Supplemental Credit
A proposal to expand the social compact for working families
Why Bother With Family?
If conservatives do not speak for the family, who will?
Seeing Like a Pro-Family State
Addressing our fertility and family-formation crises will require us to push the boundaries of family policy and embrace a whole-of-society approach.
7 Proposals To Make America More Family-Friendly
Writers and analysts from across the right-of-center apply a family-focused lens to contemporary policy challenges.
Family Policy for the Working-Class Majority
A pro-worker agenda must treat families, not individuals, as the basic units of public policy.
Conversations
Family Feud: Child Allowance Edition
The Niskanen Center’s Samuel Hammond and the American Enterprise Institute’s Scott Winship debate the case for a “child allowance.”
Family Financial Security: Sen. Romney on the Right’s Fight to Support Our Most Important Institution
Senator Mitt Romney joins us for a conversation about what draws him to family benefits, why he thinks conservatives should embrace the Family Security Act’s approach, how he sees this debate fitting into the broader one about the right-of-center’s future.
News & Commentary
Biden’s Daycare Plan Is Bad for Families
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL—In an op-ed criticizing President Biden’s day care plan, J.D. Vance and Jenet Erickson highlight the findings of American Compass’s Home Building Survey.
Give Power to the Parents!
THE NEW YORK TIMES—In a column on how best to approach family benefits, David Brooks cites the findings of the American Compass Home Building Survey.
How To Build Family Policy For The Working-Class Majority
DAILY CALLER—Michael Lind’s Home Building essay on family policy for the working class majority is adapted by the Daily Caller.
The Left’s Welfare Extremism
NATIONAL REVIEW—Executive director Oren Cass on how left-wing critics of our family-benefit proposal are sorely misguided.
Put Working Families at the Front of the Line for Help
THE NEW YORK TIMES—American Compass executive director Oren Cass argues that a policy that sustains people in joblessness is not ultimately anti-poverty.