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‘Aspen Ideas: RE$ET’ features economists, business leaders, entrepreneurs and others from Main Street America
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The Aspen Institute will host two days of online programming on the current state and future of the American economy next week.
Dubbed “Aspen Ideas: RE$ET,” the free participatory event will run Monday and Tuesday, featuring leading economists, business leaders, entrepreneurs and voices from main streets across the U.S.
In the wake of a pandemic-induced recession that has disproportionately impacted people of color, small businesses, front-line workers and women, “RE$ET” will explore proposals to offer more robust and equitable opportunity in the job market, in business growth and in growing America’s resilience to future setbacks.
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
The list of problems for Americans is long, from a growing debt crisis, to immigration, race issues, policing, shrinking of the American middle class, lack of upward social mobility, healthcare, gun.
Reforms to help California’s low-income workers hit hard by the coronavirus crisis don’t need to have hefty price tags. Gov. Gavin Newsom could help eliminate a formidable barrier to employment for hundreds of thousands of struggling Californians. It would cost next to nothing, and the state would be one of the first in the nation to do it.
In early January, when Newsom puts forward his 2021 budget proposal his primary opportunity to shape state policy he can lay the groundwork for all California courts to stop suspending people’s driver’s licenses when they miss their traffic court dates.