Developing the conservative economic agenda to supplant blind faith in free markets with a focus on workers, their families and communities, and the nation.
May 29, 2024 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Few policy issues are cloaked in more spin than immigration. To cut through the noise, @MarkSKrikorian joined @Oren_Cass on the American Compass Podcast to talk about America’s broken immigration system and the policy failures from the Biden admin that accelerated the problem.🧵
“Border crisis” often conjures an image of illegal immigrants crossing into the country under cover of darkness, eluding the gaze of the government.
But the problem—record numbers of people illegally crossing the border—is more complicated than that.
🧵 The breakdown in American capitalism over the past half-century is most apparent in its failure to deliver widespread prosperity for the American people.
The American Condition breaks down the data on what life is like for most Americans today: americancompass.org/rebuilding-ame…
In the past 50 years, American capitalism has achieved substantial growth in labor productivity, GDP per capita, and corporate profits.
But while those levels were doubling or tripling, wages went nowhere—up only 1% in total, not annually, after adjusting for inflation.
Jun 14, 2023 • 11 tweets • 8 min read
🚨OUT TODAY: Rebuilding American Capitalism: A Handbook for Conservative Policymakers
For everyone who has rightfully asked, "What are the actual plans for a worker-focused conservatism?," this handbook provides the answer.
Read it here: americancompass.org/rebuilding-ame…
We launched 3 years ago with the goal of charting a new course for conservative economics—supplanting a blind faith in free markets with a focus on the interests of workers, families and communities, and the nation.
This book represents the culmination of those 3 years of work.
Mar 4, 2021 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
Raising and caring for a family is the most important undertaking of our lives, but it has become more difficult and less valued in recent decades.
Our Required Reading list puts this trend in context and asks what comes next: americancompass.org/collections/ho…
The readings here offer some of the clearest thinking on these questions:
What role does the family play in society?
How and why has the traditional family broken down?
How can public policy strengthen American families? americancompass.org/collections/ho…
Mar 3, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The public square is too often closed to those without a narrow set of credentials. Debates are poorer for it, policymakers less informed and our fellow citizens excluded.
Today, we're introducing a new series, feat. the voices that are often left out: americancompass.org/the-commons/in…
As more of our politics and policies become nationalized, those doing the politicking and policymaking have tended to become ever more removed from large segments of the population for whom they speak—physically, economically, and culturally.
Dec 17, 2020 • 15 tweets • 10 min read
🧵 As our first year comes to a close, we’re delighted to share our Annual Report, telling the story of what we’ve accomplished so far. americancompass.org/annual-report-…
It begins with @oren_cass’s Founder’s Letter, which explores why we believe our work is so critical at this moment.
