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AI and the Economy
Reflections from Aspen Ideas: Economy.
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An Oklahoma Perspective on Growth and Opportunity
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt joined ABC News correspondent Elizabeth Schulze for a conversation offering an Oklahoma perspective on the economy.
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How Can We Help the Next Generation Build Wealth?
At the 2026 Aspen Ideas: Economy in Tulsa, a conversation about Trump Accounts explores how to help the next generation build wealth.
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Does Economic Growth Pass the Kitchen-Table Test?
Watch the conversation from the 2026 Aspen Ideas: Economy in Tulsa.
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Building Economic Security: A Book Talk with Arindrajit Dube and Carrie Joy Grimes
Economic security shouldn’t be a lottery. Yet for millions of working families, stagnant wages and precarious jobs collide with the daily grind of managing money on shaky ground — leaving stability feeling less like a plan and more like a gamble. Fixing that takes more than one lever. It takes structural reform and the tools people need to take control of their financial lives, working together.
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Work and the Social Contract in the Age of AI: How did we get here?
“Social contract” has quickly become one of the most-used, least-defined phrases in the AI policy conversation. This first event in a two-part series will trace the origin and history of the American social contract, examining how work became the anchor of economic security, mobility, and civic identity in the United States.
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Disposable Workers: A Book Talk with MIT Sloan Professor Paul Osterman
For decades, economists and policymakers have debated how to help workers get better jobs. But what if the more fundamental problem is that employers have systematically redesigned work itself to make a third of the workforce expendable? In his forthcoming book, “Disposable Workers: The Transformation of Employment,” MIT Sloan Professor Emeritus Paul Osterman examines this idea and what it would take to reverse it.
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Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship Announces the Founding Cohort of the Health Innovators Accelerator
HIA marks the first expansion of HIF’s platform beyond the Fellowship itself — extending the same rigor and standard of leadership to a wider community of health leaders working to build what’s next for health.
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How Tax Policy Can Help Employers Expand Access to Learning
In this interview, Chelsea Miller of Upskill America speaks with Nick Greif of InStride about how employers can design education benefits that are more accessible, strategic, and aligned with workforce goals.
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Metrics that Matter: Improving Financial Analysis of CDFI Small Business Lenders
CDFI boards, leadership teams, investors, and regulators have long relied on a familiar set of financial metrics to assess organizational performance.
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