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    Oren Cass

    Oren Cass is the executive director of American Compass and author of The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America.

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    • Monday, 13 February, 2023
      US economy
      Ordinary Americans are counting the cost of thriving

      Economic data disguises just how hard it has become to sustain a middle-class lifestyle

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      Republican Party US
      Ferment of change lurks in Republican chaos

      Disarray over electing US House Speaker disguises emergence of fresh thinking to replace outdated paradigms

    • Monday, 17 October, 2022
      Employment
      Skills gaps will force companies to do right by their compatriots

      Employers who profited from cheap foreign labour cannot now gripe at having to train local workers

    • Sunday, 14 August, 2022
      US politics & policy
      The Chips Act debate shows how far the Republicans have moved

      Rebuilding America’s industrial base is superseding traditional economic doctrine

    • Monday, 11 July, 2022
      Climate change
      The climate crisis is no excuse for backsliding on democracy

      For progressives, the US Supreme Court’s EPA ruling should have been a teachable moment

    • Sunday, 1 May, 2022
      US-China trade dispute
      Cutting China tariffs will offer no respite from rising prices

      US policymakers must stand firm on the need to confront Beijing and rebalance global trade

    • Monday, 21 March, 2022
      US-China trade dispute
      Republican stance on free markets is shifting when it comes to China

      Despite the priority traditionally given to the free flow of capital, many now argue that Beijing should be the exception

    • Monday, 31 January, 2022
      Corporate governance
      Why the US right wants to put workers in the boardroom

      A Republican bill that proposes to give labour a new voice is a challenge to vested interests on left and right

    • Wednesday, 22 December, 2021
      Republican Party US
      A battle for the GOP’s future is under way

      The Republicans must move beyond the dog-eared 1980s playbook of tax cuts and deregulation if they are to succeed

    • Sunday, 5 September, 2021
      Trade unions
      American labour unions should stop playing politics

      Workers are much more interested in bargaining than in activism

    • Sunday, 30 May, 2021
      Big tech
      Curtailing big tech requires much more than breaking it up

      The digital age has transformed civilisation, but policymakers remain one step behind

    • Thursday, 25 March, 2021
      Capitalism
      The US needs to rediscover the meaning of investment

      Fortunes are made in financial markets without benefiting the real economy

    • Monday, 1 February, 2021
      US politics & policy
      Joe Biden should be doing more that really helps workers

      US president’s focus on climate change and racial equity fails to tackle economic imbalances

    • Wednesday, 23 December, 2020
      US politics & policy
      Complacency and wasteful spending blight US higher education

      Forgiving billions of dollars of student debt is a bad idea

    • Monday, 16 November, 2020
      US presidential election 2020
      The US is not massed on opposite sides of a political divide

      Biden’s nation is Trump’s nation and Obama’s nation, too

    • Tuesday, 13 October, 2020
      US politics & policy
      US presidential candidates are ignoring ordinary voters’ needs

      For workers in 2020, the choice is ‘none of the above’

    • Thursday, 3 September, 2020
      US politics & policy
      Republican party battles over its post-Trumpian soul

      An ideological contest rages between Reaganite libertarians and post-Trump conservatives

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