How can moving low-income families to better neighborhoods help them? Are we “choosing” inequality through our policy decisions? Would millennials change Congress for the better? Programs at the Aspen Institute have been scouring their respective issue areas to find and share the most insightful and informative links to answer these questions, and more.
Scroll down to see tweets from across the Institute this week about what’s important right now. Follow our @AspenInstitute list on Twitter for updates and to keep up with each program’s events, video, and experts, and let us know what you’re reading in the comments section below.
Here’s the unexpected reason #college tuition has skyrocketed. http://t.co/yVUhqKWKja https://t.co/FhqNLyyGWd
— Aspen Institute (@AspenInstitute) May 8, 2015
In a country that purports to value work, we ought to consider why we are so unwilling to pay for it. http://t.co/ZpnNn9HDfF @conway_maureen
— Aspen BSP (@AspenBizSociety) May 6, 2015
Wanted: Millennial Candidates for Congress http://t.co/ZFaQ2ITZnX via @nationaljournal
— Tara Maller (@TaraMaller) May 6, 2015
“The roots of #inequality are complex, but also reflect our policy choices.” @NickKristoff on ‘choice’ of inequality: http://t.co/bnNMa4gybM
— Ford Foundation (@FordFoundation) May 4, 2015
This story remains eerily similar across continents and decades: http://t.co/03sEsU1L2U great piece by @RelebohileMolet #SRH
— Aspen New Voices (@AspenNewVoices) May 4, 2015
A new look at data suggests moving poor families to better neighborhoods does help them. http://t.co/QtuO3WhF0D pic.twitter.com/9SHA2nddQE
— The Upshot (@UpshotNYT) May 4, 2015
