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Science and Technology

Civil Rights Violations in Tech

Communities of color face challenges after innovations in voting, housing, schools, and more.

BY Dominique Harrison

Blog Post

12 hours ago
Communications

Next Generation Digital Infrastructure

Explores regulatory structures to incentivize the deployment of communications infrastructure to unserved areas and ways to promote competition and protect consumers on the internet.

BY Communications and Society Program

Publication

4 days ago
The Environment

The Path to a High Seas Treaty

The UN recognizes that our window of opportunity to save ocean ecosystems is closing.

BY Hiroko Muraki Gottlieb, & 1 more

Blog Post

4 days ago
Public Health

Meet the 2019 Class of PHRASES Fellows

Public Health Reaching Across Sectors (PHRASES), a partnership of the de Beaumont Foundation and the Aspen Institute's Health, Medicine and Society Program, is pleased to introduce the 2019 class of PHRASES Fellows. These 15 public health leaders have demonstrated a commitment to developing cross-sector collaborations in their communities and a passion for improving the way public health communicates its value to decision-makers in other sectors.

BY Health, Medicine and Society Program

Blog Post

6 days ago
Employment and Jobs

Is America Missing 2.5 Million Women Workers?

A labor market unwelcoming to women leaves our economy deprived of talent and our society diminished.

BY Maureen Conway & 1 more

Blog Post

6 days ago
K-12 Education

It's Time We Start Talking About Rural Schools

Rural schools are often treated as an afterthought in national conversations on education.

BY Education and Society Program

Blog Post

6 days ago
US Economy

All Workers Deserve Simplified Tax Filing

This tax day, we have highlighted a number of challenges that U.S. taxpayers face navigating the current tax filing system and shared some ways to help taxpayers file accurately and expediently, regardless of their work arrangement.

BY Shelly Steward

Blog Post

1 week ago
Nonprofit Organizations

House Passes Non-Profit Information & Transparency Bill

H.R. 1957 was passed in the full House through a procedure used for non-controversial measures.

BY Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation (PSI)

Blog Post

1 week ago
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