American Compass (original) (raw)
May 7, 2026
• Brad Littlejohn
Age-Gating for Contract, not Content
Should policymakers subject online contracts to age verification and require parental consent for minors to access digital services?
March 12, 2026
• Theresa Braid
2025 Annual Report
Staking Our Claim: American Compass’s 2025 Annual Report.
March 12, 2026
• Oren Cass
2025 Founder’s Letter
Political economy has no inviolable truths. Anything that economists or political scientists claim as inviolable truth, then, is incomplete—it may hold within the narrow confines of their analysis, but it will not hold in reality over the long run.
March 5, 2026
• American Compass
Learning By Doing
Case studies in building the infrastructure for career pathways
March 5, 2026
• Oren Cass, Bruno V. Manno
Foreword: Building Blocks
A startling transformation is underway, in the economy, in the culture, and among policymakers.
March 5, 2026
• American Compass
The Data: An Inadequate American System
The American commitment to “College for All” has been an unmitigated disaster for the majority of young people.
March 5, 2026
• American Compass
Case Study: Fresno Unified School District
Across seven comprehensive high schools and seven specialty high schools, the district offers 81 different career pathways.
March 5, 2026
• American Compass
Case Study: Texas State Technical College
The single objective is training and placing a skilled workforce with Texas employers.
March 5, 2026
• American Compass
Case Study: Micron Technology
A Registered Apprenticeship pathway to train entry-level technicians for the company’s Idaho and Virginia fabs.
March 5, 2026
• American Compass
Case Study: electrical training ALLIANCE
A nonprofit national training organization associated with the joint apprenticeship system created by the IBEW and the NECA.
March 5, 2026
• American Compass
Case Study: Micron Technology & North America’s Building Trades Unions
The workforce plan includes a project-linked contractor funding contribution stream to support the Pathways to Apprenticeship pipeline and a first-source referral approach.
March 5, 2026
• American Compass
Learning By Doing: Policy Recommendations
Ten recommendations to advance opportunity pluralism: a diversified system of credible, work-connected pathways that meet people where they are and lead to good jobs.
March 5, 2026
• American Compass
Case Study: Hadrian
A Workforce Development Program that is a core investment and a competitive advantage.
February 22, 2026
• American Compass
Trump’s Challenge to Free-Market Capitalism
Stakes in private companies. Handshake deals with chief executives. The president’s economic policy has drifted far from principles that long defined the Republican Party. Is it capitalism at all?
February 12, 2026
• Chris Griswold
Ban Noncompete Agreements Nationwide
Noncompetes hamper innovation and entrepreneurship.
February 11, 2026
• American Compass
Oren Cass joins The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
As the stock market continues to break records, Jon is joined by Oren Cass, chief economist at American Compass, to examine how America’s economy was reengineered to serve shareholders instead Read more…
February 7, 2026
• Oren Cass
Tariffs vs. Free Trade: Oren Cass Debates Larry Summers at Harvard Business School
In November, Harvard Business School hosted a debate between Oren Cass and Katherine Tai on one side, and Larry Summers and Robert Lawrence on the other, over the question: Should Read more…
February 6, 2026
• American Compass
Oren Cass Joins Bannon’s War Room to Discuss Financialization
The real Wall Street problem isn’t just the edge-case fraudsters or looters; it’s the entire exercise. Private equity, hedge funds, private credit: all these layers atop legitimate markets that create Read more…
February 6, 2026
• Oren Cass
The Finance Industry Is a Grift. Let’s Start Treating It That Way.
It’s bonus season on Wall Street, and a record-setting 2025 is yielding bigger paychecks than ever for America’s investment bankers, thanks to their hard work doing, well, what exactly?
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