Aspen is a place for leaders to lift their sights above the possessions which possess them. To confront their own nature as human beings, to regain control over their own humanity by becoming more self-aware, more self-correcting, and hence more self-fulfilling.
EPIC has identified hybrid financial products as an emerging opportunity to help families that experience income volatility manage it successfully. Hybrid products combine the functions of two or more consumer financial products that are generally offered separately, integrated for the purpose of improving peoples’ capacity to effectively manage their money. This brief reviews the current research on how families cope with income volatility, identifies existing hybrid products that have demonstrated capacity to help, discusses the roles of the institutions best positioned to act – financial institutions, employers, and government – and recommends principles for further action.
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.
This report illustrates four pillars of care: child care and early education, adult and elder care, family caregiving and self care, and professional caregiving.
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.
