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Sports

Romania Deploys Project Play to Get More Kids Active in Sports

Over the past year, Aspen Romania has used our Project Play framework to convene leaders with the aim of developing a national plan for getting more children active through sports.

BY Tom Farrey

Blog Post

3 days ago
Colleges and Universities

Toward a College-Debt-Free Society

This spring, the Expanding Prosperity Impact Collaborative (EPIC), an initiative of the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program, released a study on ways to help those with student loan debt to eliminate some portion of their federal student loans.

BY David K. Gibson

Blog Post

5 days ago
Colleges and Universities

A Degree by Any Other Name

Education technology company Chegg and the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program recently hosted a webinar and gave a frank assessment of where we are and what some companies are doing to alleviate the problem for their employees.

BY David K. Gibson

Blog Post

5 days ago
Employment and Jobs

Expanding Benefits and Protections for Today’s Workers: California’s AB5 Brings Attention to Classification

California's AB5 redefines employment, expands benefits and protections to more workers, and paves the way for additional policy innovations.

BY Shelly Steward & 1 more

Blog Post

5 days ago
Public Health

2019 Black Maternal Health Caucus

Jennie Joseph's testimony from the 2019 Black Maternal Health Caucus.

BY Jennie Joseph

Blog Post

1 week ago
Community Development

Let's Put Opportunity In Front Of Youth

Dan Porterfield talks about the power and value of providing real second chances to America’s 4.6 million “opportunity youth”—young people who are not connected to education or employment.

BY Daniel R. Porterfield

Blog Post

2 weeks ago
Arts

Jessye Norman’s Life of Artistry

Millions the world over have heard opera superstar Jessye Norman sing, and they have come away richer for the experience. When Norman was named as an Aspen Institute Harman-Eisner Artist in Residence, we also heard her speak a bit. Unsurprisingly, everything that came out of her mouth was golden.

BY David K. Gibson

Blog Post

2 weeks ago
Literature

What We’re Reading: The Water Dancer

Ta-Nehisi Coates' upcoming first novel is a piece of fiction set in the world of the Underground Railroad.

BY David K. Gibson

Blog Post

2 weeks ago
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