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A Good Jobs Strategy for Workforce Professionals

Despite their focus on job quality, workforce staff often endure bad jobs themselves. In other words, “The cobbler’s children have no shoes.”

BY Sheila Maguire Dee Wallace

09.01.2023
Economic Development

Employee Ownership and ESOPs

In the US, about 18% of employees have some form of ownership stake in the company where they work, through structures like employee stock ownership plans ...

BY The Aspen Partnership for an Inclusive Economy

08.31.2023
Employment and Jobs

Job Quality Newsletter — Gig Work and Good Jobs

People have been working short-term jobs for centuries, but over the past two decades, apps like Uber and Instacart have popularized the idea of a “gig e ...

BY Shelly Steward

08.07.2023
Economic Development

A Smarter Approach to Creating Good Jobs

Building out the green economy is a massive undertaking, and that means lots of new jobs. That’s a good thing for workers, as long as the jobs being crea ...

BY The Aspen Partnership for an Inclusive Economy

08.02.2023
Employment and Jobs

In the New Green Economy, Philanthropy Must Take a Smarter Approach to Creating Good Jobs

This piece originally appeared in The Chronicle of Philanthropy. For years, philanthropy has supported efforts to help low-income people get and keep ...

BY Maureen Conway Amy Brown

07.26.2023
Business and Markets

It’s Time to Shine a Light on Small Business Lending

Motherhood. Apple Pie. Homeownership. Small Businesses. While all are fundamental parts of American identity, one is not like the other. The federal govern ...

BY Joyce Klein

07.25.2023
Economic Development

Building Wealth in the US

We have spoken often of The New Wealth Agenda, the ambitious—but achievable—plan to increase the wealth of the bottom half of the US wealth distributi ...

BY The Aspen Partnership for an Inclusive Economy

07.20.2023
Economic Development

Good Jobs = More Freedom

To Advance Freedom, We Need to Improve Job Quality. If you missed the fireworks on the Fourth, Maureen Conway of the Institute’s Economic Opportunitie ...

BY The Aspen Partnership for an Inclusive Economy

07.13.2023
Employment and Jobs

To Advance Freedom, We Need To Improve Job Quality

July Fourth is the celebration of our country’s independence from monarchical rule, closely following Juneteenth, a celebration of the emancipation of en ...

BY Maureen Conway

07.06.2023
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