Oren Cass

Oren Cass
Cass on Reason TV in 2021
Personal details
Born1983 (age 40–41)
Political partyRepublican
EducationWilliams College (BA)
Harvard University (JD)

Oren M. Cass (born 1983) is an American public policy commentator and political advisor.[1] Since 2024 he has served as the chief economist at American Compass, a conservative think tank. He previously worked on the presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney in 2008 and 2012, being described as a "general policy impresario of the emerging conservative consensus on fighting poverty".[2] Between 2015 and 2019, Cass was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and he was the author of The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America.[3] In February 2020, Cass established American Compass, an organization aimed at the question of "what the post-Trump right-of-center is going to be.”[4]

  1. ^ Willick, Jason (November 23, 2018). "Conservatives and the Politics of Work". The Wall Street Journal.
  2. ^ "The Politico 50". Politico. 2015.
  3. ^ "The Once and Future Worker". Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
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