Economic Opportunities Program Newsletter, January 2021
At the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program, and for our many colleagues and partners, the ongoing and intertwined health, economic, and racial justice crises bring new urgency to our work to improve access to quality jobs, options to participate in business ownership, and the freedom to pursue economic opportunity. Below we share our monthly newsletter with highlights of recent work. As always, we welcome your feedback, thoughts, and partnership in advancing inclusive opportunity and an economy in which we all can thrive. Click here to subscribe.
Joining Forces on the Future of Work
We are pleased to announce that the Institute’s Future of Work Initiative (FOWI) has merged with EOP. FOWI was established in late 2015 to develop bipartisan policy recommendations to address the challenges American workers face in a changing economy. FOWI’s emphasis on policy development complements EOP’s decades of research on o
Moving Beyond Gratitude: Opportunities to Improve Essential Work
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Among the many unexpected lessons of 2020 was a recognition of the importance of essential workers. We saw how much we rely on the people who work in our food systems, who care for our children and our loved ones, who deliver packages, and who keep our public spaces clean. We learned to say thank you to so many of them, and in this season of thanks, we reflect on how we can do more than say thank you by improving the quality of essential jobs. As the year draws to a close, we discuss the important role of essential workers in our economy and society and a variety of approaches for improving essential work.