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City Leaders Lay Out a Roadmap for Building a Lifelong Learning System

This blog highlights key takeaways from experts at a recent Future of Work Initiative event, which explored the barriers and opportunities of creating a system that helps, not hinders, lifelong learning.

BY Zach Neumann

Blog Post

01.14.2021
Employment and Jobs

The Path Forward: Support a More Equitable Education and Training System

In Building a Lifelong Learning System, the Future of Work Initiative recommends ways to support a more equitable education and training system.

BY Alastair Fitzpayne & 1 more

Blog Post

12.28.2020
Employment and Jobs

The Path Forward: Build Jobs & Training Digital Platform and Expand Career Counseling

In Building a Lifelong Learning System, the Future of Work Initiative recommends building a jobs and training digital platform and expanding career counseling.

BY Alastair Fitzpayne & 1 more

Blog Post

12.21.2020
Employment and Jobs

The Path Forward: Create Deputy Mayor Position and Establish an Advisory Council for Lifelong Learning

In Building a Lifelong Learning System, the Future of Work Initiative recommends creating a Deputy Mayor position and establishing an advisory council for lifelong learning.

BY Alastair Fitzpayne & 1 more

Blog Post

12.14.2020
Climate Change

Climate Change and National Security (2019)

The Inter-Policy School Summit is a student-run conference hosted by the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy that seeks to

BY Energy and Environment Program & 1 more

Publication

07.08.2020
Climate Change

City Resiliency and Climate Change (2020)

The Inter-Policy School Summit is a student-run conference hosted by the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. The Summit br

BY Energy and Environment Program & 1 more

Publication

06.29.2020
Urban Innovation

Procurement During a Pandemic

Never before has it been more important for our local governments to get public procurement right. How our local governments respond to the current crisis will lay the foundation for more equitable communities in the recovery to come.

BY Kaye Sklar & 1 more

Blog Post

04.29.2020
Urban Innovation

Practice Safe Density

Density is more important than ever, but, in a time of pandemic it leaves city economies and city residents vulnerable. How do cities—governments, residents, businesses, civic groups—learn to practice safe density?

BY Jennifer Bradley

Blog Post

03.31.2020
Around the Institute

WeWork and the Aspen Institute Future of Work Initiative Release Study About Major Trends Shaping Urban Work and Life

Today, the Aspen Institute Future of Work Initiative and WeWork released the findings from their Future of Work and Cities Survey, a global research project designed to better understand the major trends shaping the 21st century, including urbanization, automation, and climate change, through the lens of people in cities who are experiencing them.

BY Future of Work Initiative

Blog Post

01.22.2020
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