A Conversation with Oren Cass, Executive Director of American Compass

On November 3rd the ACCF hosted ​A Conversation with Oren Cass, author of “The Once and Future Worker: A vision for the renewal of work in America.”

Oren Cass is an opinion writer for the Financial Times and his work has also appeared in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He worked previously as the domestic Policy Director for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, as a management consultant at Bain & Company, and an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Oren is the Executive Director of American Compass, a nonprofit with a focus on markets, workers, their families and communities. Jason Furman, the Chairman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors described the book as “a thoughtful provocative, carefully argued book that made me change my mind on some issues that I thought about quite a lot.” He has also been described as a “general policy impresario of the emerging conservative consensus on fighting poverty.”