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. It’s a minor miracle that anyone can live in San Francisco on a $900 a month Social Security check, but Freddie Persons – a 75-year-old retiree – has survived times with his belt far tighter.   Until recently, the government automatically garnished $300 from his monthly check. When he worked as a janitor for 36 years at Bayview Plaza mall, they took nearly twice that, he said.  OVERCHARGED takes an inside look at how unfair fines and fees criminalize poverty in California. The series tells the stories of people reeling from this approach of raising revenue and the activists fightin...

The Future of Financial Security Policy Is the History of Black Women’s Leadership Yesterday, Thursday, March 11, President Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan, $1.9 trillion spending package aimed at shoring up the damage inflicted to the economy and family balance sheets by the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the provisions is a third round of direct cash payments to households, as well as a significant expansion of the Child Tax Credit—increased from $2,000 per child under 16 to $3,000 for per child under 17 and $3,600 per child under 6—to be administered “periodically” to be...

Economic Opportunities Program Newsletter, February 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. Cli...

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...

20 Issues and Ideas That Deserved More Attention in 2020 December 22, 2020  • David K. Gibson It is normal, at the end of the year, for organizations such as ours to assemble a “best of” list of stories. It’s a recognition of great work and a small thank you gift to those who have supported us. We don’t have to tell you that 2020 was not a normal year. But even in the maelstrom of a pandemic, social unrest, and political division, the important work of individuals and programs that are a part of the Aspen Institute has continued—and it is work that shouldn’t be overlooked.