How should family poverty be measured? What’s causing the decline of American entrepreneurship? Why do we need more female peacekeepers? 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.
We measure family poverty wrong. We should measure access to opportunity to find out what’s working. http://t.co/XVf0NNRbbZ by @AECFNews
— Aspen Institute (@AspenInstitute) March 5, 2015
By 2020, >50% of America's children will be part of a minority race or ethnic group. #Highered #equity implications. http://t.co/NowpdCr3Z1
— College Excellence (@AspenHigherEd) March 4, 2015
We're reading @Carnegie_Europe's ideas what #Tunisia needs from #Europe: http://t.co/OoUIlMsN9m #IECTunis
— Aspen Middle East (@AspenMidEast) March 3, 2015
Here’s why we need more female peacekeepers. http://t.co/sL2l8ADqiT by @UNPeacekeeping
— Aspen Institute (@AspenInstitute) March 3, 2015
Varying criminal offenses are keeping male ex-convicts out of the workforce and from personal stability http://t.co/1lezzYC3WM @nytimes
— Aspen Ascend (@AspenAscend) March 2, 2015
US needs "military restraint & close political cooperation w/ #Arabs" in ideological war w/ #ISIS – @FareedZakaria http://t.co/29jdTz6Wrn
— Aspen Strategy Group (@AspenStrategy) March 2, 2015
Concerning trends on the decline of American entrepreneurship– especially millenials — in five charts http://t.co/rmRRUpijQs
— FIELD at Aspen (@AspenMicro) March 2, 2015