The Next Big Idea: Portable Benefits for Independent Workers
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This event features a series of panel discussions with key voices in the conversation around independent workers, in the on-demand economy and beyond. Senator Mark Warner, honorary co-chair of the Future of Work Initiative, joins the discussion. The event was hosted by Bruce Reed and John Bridgeland, co-chairs of the Future of Work Initiative, and Maureen Conway, Executive Director of the Economic Opportunities Program. The event’s panels also feature a number of signatories of the November 10, 2015 letter to lawmakers agreeing to principles on portable benefits for independent workers, including business representatives, worker advocates, and thought leaders.
Featuring…
Thomas E. Perez
US Secretary of Labor
Senator Mark Warner
US Senator from the Commonwealth of Virginia
Honorary Co-Chair, Future of Work Initiative
Bruce Reed
Co-Chair, Future of Work Initiative
John Bridgeland
Co-Chair, Future of Work Initiative
Maureen Conway
Vice President, The Aspen Institute
Executive Director, Economic Opportunities Program
Ida Rademacher
Executive Director, Financial Security Initiative
Panelists include…
Byron Auguste
Managing Director, Opportunity@Work
Oisin Hanrahan
CEO, Handy
Douglas Holtz-Eakin
President, American Action Forum
Sheila Lirio Marcelo
Founder, Chairwoman, and CEO, Care.com
David Rolf
President, SEIU 775
Anne-Marie Slaughter
President and CEO, New America Foundation
Saket Soni
Executive Director, National Guestworker Alliance
Arun Sundararajan
Professor and the Robert L. and Dale Atkins Rosen Faculty Fellow, New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Philip Zelikow
White Burkett Miller Professor of History, University of Virginia
Senior Adviser, Markle Foundation
The Future of Work Initiative is a year-long nonpartisan effort to identify concrete ways to strengthen the social contract in the midst of sweeping changes in the 21st-century workplace and workforce. The Initiative will focus on two challenges in particular: first, how best to advance and protect the economic interests of Americans in the rapidly growing economy of shared goods and services; and second, how best to inspire a 21st-century capitalism for a 21st-century workforce by incenting employers to help workers get ahead.
The Future of Work Initiative is built in the spirit of nonpartisanship and collaboration, as it looks to find consensus on common sense policy solutions. Senator Mark Warner from Virginia and Purdue President Mitch Daniels, former Governor of Indiana, will serve as Honorary Co-Chairs. Bruce Reed and John Bridgeland, who headed the Domestic Policy Council under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, respectively, will serve as Co-Chairs. Conor McKay, formerly chief of staff of the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles debt reduction commission, will be the Initiative’s Director.
The Economic Opportunities Program (EOP) is a policy program at the Aspen Institute whose primary mission is to advance promising strategies and policies to help low- and moderate-income Americans succeed in today’s dynamic economy. Led from the Institute’s headquarters in Washington, DC, EOP is composed of three related initiatives: the Microenterprise Fund for Innovation, Effectiveness, Learning, and Dissemination (FIELD), Skills for America’s Future, and the Workforce Strategies Initiative (AspenWSI). Learn more at as.pn/eop.
