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Meet the Fellows: Q&A With Vanessa Ryan

What does it take to close a country’s divisions? The question is of course so vast that there can be no single answer. 2018 First Mover V

BY 2018 First Mover Fellows

Blog Post

10 hours ago
Sports

Sports Betting in the Public Interest

Legalized sports betting is an opportunity to deliver on the full promise of sports as a tool of nation-building.

BY Tom Farrey

Blog Post

13 hours ago
Community Development

Latinos in the AI Era

Machine learning means big changes for Latinos — which means big changes for the US economy.

BY Steven Wolfe Pereira

Blog Post

13 hours ago
National Security

Highlights from the 2018 Aspen Security Forum

Present and prior leaders in security and defense discuss modern emerging threats and foreign relations. Conversations center around Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran.

BY Leah Sorini

Blog Post

4 days ago
Workforce Development

Worker Training Tax Credit: Promoting Employer Investments in the Workforce

To address the impacts of technological change and the decline in employer-provided training on the workforce, the Future of Work Initiative proposes a tax credit for businesses to invest in training for their low- and middle-income workers. The issue brief has been updated from May 2017 to include economic modeling.

BY Alastair Fitzpayne & 1 more

Publication

5 days ago
Long-Term Capitalism

Look Beyond Executives to Fix Executive Pay

Companies are publishing new data about pay — comparing the CEO’s compensation to that of the “median” worker.

BY Judith F. Samuelson

Blog Post

5 days ago
US Government

Can the Democrats Win Big in 2018—and 2020?

Amy Walter, Reihan Salam, Celinda Lake, and Jamelle Bouie talk about democrats and the midterm elections.

BY Aspen Ideas to Go

Podcast

6 days ago
Society

Off Stage 2: Fighting for Immigrants

Gaby Pacheco and New York Times Writer Wajahat Ali, talk about the struggles immigrants still face years later.

BY Aspen Ideas to Go

Podcast

6 days ago
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