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Join the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program on Thursday, February 2nd, for a discussion with federal and state leaders who will share their plans to modernize public benefits delivery, highlight new opportunities for partnership between federal and state governments to improve financial resilience, and set forth a vision for what public benefits should become in the coming years.

Join the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program on Thursday, October 13th, for Part 1 of our two-part series highlighting the foundational role benefits play in supporting household financial resilience. Part 1 will elevate the work of federal, state, and nonprofit leaders taking a people-centric approach to redesigning public benefits.

Join the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program on Wednesday, February 1st, for a discussion to hear what the household financial safety net of the future needs to look like in an America that is facing an increasingly unpredictable set of challenges.

Join the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program on Thursday, November 17th, for Part 2 of our two-part series highlighting the foundational role benefits play in supporting household financial resilience. Part 2 will use Aspen FSP’s new financial resilience framework to showcase the importance of workplace benefits to holistically support households to manage and mitigate the impact of financial shocks. It will explore commitments by private sector leaders and elevate the benefit innovators.

Join the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program on Thursday, October 13th, for Part 1 of our two-part series highlighting the foundational role benefits play in supporting household financial resilience. Part 1 will elevate the work of federal, state, and nonprofit leaders taking a people-centric approach to redesigning public benefits.

Join the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program and Springboard To Opportunities on Wednesday, November 10th, for a discussion on insights for policy design from the perspective of families these policies are intended to serve, the CTC expansion as a use-case for these insights, and how policymakers can apply these lessons broadly to building a modernized system of benefits.

COVID-19 has highlighted the central role that technology plays in delivering essential services such as food, housing assistance, and unemp

How must work and benefits be redesigned so that all workers—including those earning low and moderate wages or in nonstandard arrangements and others left out of private benefit systems—can meet their expenses, withstand financial shocks, and save for the future?

The American Rescue Plan signals the importance of taking a more holistic approach to supporting household financial security and the potential of such approach on ensuring households recover, in a more equitable way, from this pandemic.

The Aspen Institute Financial Security Program and WorkRise explored our research and held a conversation about building better on-ramps to financial security and economic mobility.

Aspen FSP's interview on understanding how people receiving SNAP have fared over the past year – and exploring the messages that those people have for policymakers.

During the pandemic, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook and other online platforms have united people in frustration and celebration, and have created a valuable repository of guidance, user complaints and insights, and ideas for policy reform.

A growing percentage of our workforce is disproportionally excluded from workplace benefits and often rely on a public system of benefits that is complex, fragmented, and not designed to meet their needs.

COVID-19 jolted the American economy — and it caused at least 30 million Americans to lose their jobs or have their working hours curtaile

Extending UI is Essential to Safeguarding Financial Security and Our Economic Recovery Within a week the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Co

What are we learning about technology and policy that will help us rebuild a benefits system for this moment and the rest of the 21st Century?

The 2010s saw a decade of solid economic growth and low unemployment, but Americans don’t need macroeconomic data to know that has n