Are economic policies influenced by sexism? How is global warming affecting the Arctic ice caps? Why is the US child-poverty rate so high? Scroll down to see tweets from across the Institute this week about what’s important right now. Follow our @AspenInstitute list on Twitter for updates and to keep up with each program’s events, video, and experts, and let us know what you’re reading in the comments section below.
An ex-Wall Street trader is taking the guesswork out of investing in African farms http://t.co/mdmutxQVRS @SaraMenker pic.twitter.com/oCDvPzWQ4a
— Quartz Africa (@qzafrica) September 20, 2015
We’ve lost millions of km² of Arctic summer sea ice over the past 40 years. http://t.co/k3FPpwbXwb pic.twitter.com/Qmt1ZplXMW
— Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) September 29, 2015
Some of our favorite authors are on this @latimes list of banned books for #YA. #BannedBooksWeek http://t.co/0iXRbXnwyl
— Aspen Words (@AspenWords) September 29, 2015
Why aren’t there more female economists? http://t.co/8F80rsMlPK via @guardian https://t.co/etFsSuGciJ
— Aspen Institute (@AspenInstitute) September 28, 2015
America isn't investing in families the way other like countries are: http://t.co/rNu2x4SIop #securefamilies
— Aspen Ascend (@AspenAscend) September 28, 2015
40 countries around the world have built fences against 64 of their neighbours since 1989 http://t.co/bQ09o9HG1Y pic.twitter.com/dVIOqJULHs
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) September 28, 2015