How can closing the education gap positively impact the economy? Why does ISIS support vaccinations (even while forbidding other humanitarian efforts)? What immediate action can the US take to help Ukraine? Programs at the Aspen Institute have been scouring their respective issue areas to find and share the most insightful and informative links to answer these questions, and more.
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.
With #vaccinations debate heating up in the US, @Max_Fisher has this on #ISIS backing vaccines.Yes, THAT ISIS. http://t.co/qXqCKAfvTi
— Aspen Security Forum (@AspenSecurity) February 3, 2015
Why do women hold less than 25 percent of global health leadership roles? @devex http://t.co/9qPYxoncT1 @nafichinery
— Aspen New Voices (@AspenNewVoices) February 4, 2015
What we're reading…Inside Syria’s Jails by Alise Mofrej via @nytimes http://t.co/r3yYPjVQT6
— Aspen Middle East (@AspenMidEast) February 4, 2015
Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job. http://t.co/gpcGLftsPn by @waxpancake
— Aspen Institute (@AspenInstitute) February 3, 2015
Closing Education Gap Will Lift Economy, a Study Finds http://t.co/NLSMXLppmw
— Aspen RCC (@AspenRCC) February 3, 2015
Interesting short read on America as a classless society, what that means & if it will last by @RichardVReeves http://t.co/3Tsj5riEEf
— Aspen Ascend (@AspenAscend) February 2, 2015
#US "needs to get serious about assisting #Ukraine" – ASG member @strobetalbott & Fmr US Amb to Ukraine @Steven_Pifer http://t.co/cJYDfXNXr0
— Aspen Strategy Group (@AspenStrategy) February 2, 2015