Job Quality

Centering Worker Voice in Employer Engagement and Program Design: A Guide for Leading Worker Focus Groups for Workforce Organizations

Workforce organizations can unlock worker expertise and engagement in ways that strengthen job quality, equity, and the business bottom line.

April 12, 2022
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Economic Opportunities Program Newsletter, March 2022

Confronting inequity, restoring the promise of work, and broadening opportunities are essential to building a more free, just, and equitable world.

March 31, 2022

The US labor shortage is the deserved outcome of a systemic failure to value workers

The trauma that the pandemic inflicted on workers followed decades of declining wages and working conditions. To bring people back, make work better.

March 29, 2022
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How Contract Work Drives Disparities in Tech

Temporary and contingent workers who work in tech have been largely locked out of the industry’s prosperity.

March 10, 2022
Stressed out Black tech worker

Economic Opportunities Program Newsletter, February 2022

The pandemic and associated crises bring new urgency to our work to improve jobs, expand business ownership, and advance economic opportunity.

February 28, 2022

Aspen Institute’s 2022 Job Quality Fellows Advocating for Economy that Values Workers

The Job Quality Fellowship brings together leaders in communities across the country who are working to expand the availability of better quality jobs.

February 24, 2022
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Economic Opportunities Program Newsletter, January 2022

The pandemic and associated crises bring new urgency to our work to improve jobs, expand business ownership, and advance economic opportunity.

January 31, 2022

New Year, New Twitter Handle

Improving work can promote equity, healthy families, and a strong economy. Our new Twitter handle @AspenJobQuality reflects this long-running goal.

January 10, 2022
Photo of a smartphone with the Twitter logo on screen. Photo by Jeremy Bezanger on Unsplash.

Economic Opportunities Program Newsletter, December 2021

The COVID-19 crisis brings new urgency to our work to improve jobs, expand business ownership, and advance economic opportunity.

December 29, 2021

2021 Year in Review – Economic Opportunities Program

We are grateful for and proud of the conversations, ideas, and outcomes the EOP team has advanced – and optimistic about the opportunities ahead.

December 21, 2021
Photo of wooden blocks spelling out the year. The final block is in the process of flipping from 2021 to 2022.