They discuss FREOPP’s recent publication "Affording the American Dream" and how to make a prosperous life more attainable for every American family.
Akash Chougule
Akash Chougule is the President of The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity. Previously he was the Vice President of Americans for Prosperity, the largest free-market grassroots advocacy organization in the country. Prior to AFP, Akash was Vice President of the Economic Opportunity Initiative at the Stand Together Chamber of Commerce. Prior to Stand Together, Akash was a policy staffer on the US House of Representatives Education and Labor Committee handling labor relations, wage-and-hour, and trade issues during the first introduction of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act and the United States-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, among other consequential policies. Prior to the House, Akash was Director of Policy at AFP. He is a regular contributor on the Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, C-SPAN, NPR, and others and his writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the New York Post, and several other major publications.
Akash was born and raised in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Boston College, where he was also a four-year member of the varsity cross country/track and field team, and received his Master’s from George Washington University. Akash was previously named to Forbes “30 Under 30” list for Law & Policy.
Akash Chougule
America has an affordability crisis and too many of the proposed solutions treat the symptoms while ignoring the disease entirely.
Real worker freedom means workers choose their arrangements, union leaders answer to members, and Congress doesn’t hand statutory advantages to either side.
The right has an opening to show how market-driven abundance is the best solution.
Why does the American Dream feel increasingly unaffordable, and what would make it attainable again?
When the loudest voices for markets go quiet on affordability and upward mobility, it's no surprise that people look elsewhere for answers, even to ideas that run to the antithesis of American idealism
Testimony for the U.S. House Committee on Education and Workforce Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
Akash breaks down FREOPP's unique mission—applying free-market principles specifically to uplift the bottom half of the socioeconomic ladder—and explains why lasting policy reform requires genuine bipartisan coalition building.