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After months of negotiations, the House seems poised to pass the bill by Thanksgiving.

Policymakers evaluating the expanded Child Tax Credit should tap into the trove of in-the-moment data to see the program’s impact and reach.

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?

A digital summit to explore the latest research about how savings function, why so many US families have been unable to build them, and what leaders can do to build an inclusive savings system.

For ideas grounded in human needs to gain political traction and to provide a safeguard against retrenchment, the interests and influence of people within our nation’s economic margins must be institutionalized within government itself.

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.

Join us as we review findings and discuss how a new vision for household financial resilience will be integral to economic recovery.

Researchers and practitioners look at how short-term savings work and don’t work, with a particular eye to whether and how savings for low-income households can be boosted.

What are barriers to building savings, and how can savings programs, products, and policies support people to build, use, and replenish this critical resource? Join Aspen FSP and AARP for an event to answer these questions.

FSP Associate Director Rachel Black was the lead author of the Guaranteed Income Report for the City of Newark and is featured in this piece ...

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?

Leaders are proposing getting more money into the hands of people and why they believe that approach is essential to the financial security of families-- both now and beyond this crisis.

This report shines a light on the central role that short-term financial stability plays in a person’s ability to reach broader financial security and upward economic mobility.