Economic Opportunity

Aspen FSP recently convened three virtual roundtables to discuss implementation of the Saver’s Match and its connection to the IRA Marketplace.

“Social contract” has quickly become one of the most-used, least-defined phrases in the AI policy conversation. This first event in a two-part series will trace the origin and history of the American social contract, examining how work became the anchor of economic security, mobility, and civic identity in the United States.

What does it take to help all young people thrive? After more than a decade of working alongside place-based partnerships across the country, OYF leadership shares lessons and insights into what approaches lead to lasting change.

For decades, economists and policymakers have debated how to help workers get better jobs. But what if the more fundamental problem is that employers have systematically redesigned work itself to make a third of the workforce expendable? In his forthcoming book, “Disposable Workers: The Transformation of Employment,” MIT Sloan Professor Emeritus Paul Osterman examines this idea and what it would take to reverse it.