Economic Opportunity

Ariana Arana Bermudez reflects on her first year as part of Aspen FSP’s Community Advisory Group and the role of young adults in advancing financial security.

Since 2021, Aspen FSP and our Community Advisory Group have worked to forefront lived experience of financial insecurity across our research and convenings. Learn how in this reflection by Riani Carr.

In this Q&A with Aspen FSP Fellow Nick Bourke, we go behind the scenes of National Task Force to Prevent Fraud and Scams and how it led to the an actionable strategy for multi-sector action.

Attaining a baseline of security, mobility, and well-being requires wealth. But exactly how much is needed? This brief aims to offer a path toward greater empirical understanding of what constitutes essential wealth and how to measure it.

This endline evaluation of the Shared Success demonstration aims to understand the impact of the work of the 11 community lenders who integrated job quality programming into their small business support services.

Early wealth building leaders want to share lessons, coordinate strategies, and deepen the evidence base necessary to take Baby Bonds to scale.

Aspen FSP partnered with Canary, a provider of employee emergency relief funds, to explore how workers used this workplace offering when faced with financial emergencies, as well as how it impacted their financial security and experiences at work.

This brief highlights new findings on the prevalence of fraud and scams in the United States, based on an analysis of data from the Understanding America Survey.