The Future of Income Volatility Research
Ida Rademacher
Vice President, Aspen Institute & Co-Executive Director
Joanna Smith-Ramani
Co-Executive Director
Since the Expanding Prosperity Impact Collaborative (EPIC) launched our investigation into income volatility in early 2016, much has been learned about volatility’s destabilizing effects on American families. Now that EPIC’s focus on income volatility is coming to a close, we wanted to recap some of the field’s most notable research achievements, as well as recommend what we see as important and needed opportunities for further work.
Publications
Unlocking a Stronger Open Access Ecosystem
This report explores obstacles or barriers to open access; overcoming unequal wealth, technology access, and education across countries to promote the benefits of scientific research; financial models for open access; and political solutions to help to promote the implementation of open access.
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Connecting Minority-Serving Institutions and Rural Research
This research brief explores strategies for MSIs’ to produce research needed to develop and implement solutions aligned with rural needs.
Publications
Building Trust and Visibility Through Community-Based Participatory Research at Rural Minority-Serving Institutions
This research brief explores how rural MSIs and approaches to community-based participatory research can be used to better understand MSIs’ nature and practices.
Publications
Using Networks To Build Collaborative And Equitable Food Systems
This brief focuses on local food systems as vehicles for collaboration and racial equity among multiple stakeholders and networks.
Publications
Youth and Young Adult Wellbeing
This report provides insight and data from the youth and young adult researchers.
How Can We Make Communities Safer? Listen to Residents First.
Justice reform should put community members with direct experience into the driver’s seat.
A Financial Security Threat in the Courtroom
For readers unfamiliar with the subject, we offer a simple, non-technical explanation of debt collection litigation.
Videos
Advancing Medicine on Earth Through Research in Space
Medical research in space may seem a little “out there”, but the microgravity environment has allowed astronauts to conduct biomedical research and learn about the human body in unique ways to help advance science and medicine on Earth. Learn about this new frontier of health research from Aspen Ideas: Health 2021.
Strong Foundations: Housing Security Solutions Framework
Everyone can do something to expand housing security in their own communities. Find the robust set of solutions for effective, equitable, and sustainable housing in the full solutions framework.
The COVID-19 Eviction Crisis: an Estimated 30-40 Million People in America Are at Risk
A look into how the eviction crisis caused by the global pandemic disproportionately affected predominantly Black and Latinx communities.
