Benefits 21 Archive

Boosting A Household’s Ability To Weather Financial Storms

Join the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program on Thursday, February 2nd, for a discussion with federal and state leaders who will share their plans to modernize public benefits delivery, highlight new opportunities for partnership between federal and state governments to improve financial resilience, and set forth a vision for what public benefits should become in the coming years.

01.18.2023

Benefits21 Financial Resilience Series Part 1

Join the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program on Thursday, October 13th, for Part 1 of our two-part series highlighting the foundational role benefits play in supporting household financial resilience. Part 1 will elevate the work of federal, state, and nonprofit leaders taking a people-centric approach to redesigning public benefits.

01.13.2023

Building a Financially Resilient America

Join the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program on Wednesday, February 1st, for a discussion to hear what the household financial safety net of the future needs to look like in an America that is facing an increasingly unpredictable set of challenges.

01.10.2023

Benefits21 Financial Resilience Series Part 2

Join the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program on Thursday, November 17th, for Part 2 of our two-part series highlighting the foundational role benefits play in supporting household financial resilience. Part 2 will use Aspen FSP’s new financial resilience framework to showcase the importance of workplace benefits to holistically support households to manage and mitigate the impact of financial shocks. It will explore commitments by private sector leaders and elevate the benefit innovators.

09.16.2022

Benefits21 Financial Resilience Series Part 1

Join the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program on Thursday, October 13th, for Part 1 of our two-part series highlighting the foundational role benefits play in supporting household financial resilience. Part 1 will elevate the work of federal, state, and nonprofit leaders taking a people-centric approach to redesigning public benefits.

09.16.2022

Reimagining a U.S. Benefits System That Supports All Workers

In early April 2022, the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program (Aspen FSP) convened its inaugural Benefits21 Leadership Forum (Forum) as part of Benef ...

BY Financial Security Program

09.12.2022

Financial Security at the Core

Benefits are foundational to achieving financial security, yet many workers and their families lack these critical supports. This report identifies a start ...

BY Rachel Black

09.12.2022

Is Build Back Better the Start of a Benefits Reset for Workers?

After months of negotiations, the House seems poised to pass the bill by Thanksgiving.

BY Financial Security Program Tim Shaw Justin King

11.15.2021

Benefits Over Burdens

Join the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program and Springboard To Opportunities on Wednesday, November 10th, for a discussion on insights for policy design from the perspective of families these policies are intended to serve, the CTC expansion as a use-case for these insights, and how policymakers can apply these lessons broadly to building a modernized system of benefits.

10.12.2021

Building the Tech-Enabled Safety Net

COVID-19 has highlighted the central role that technology plays in delivering essential services such as food, housing assistance, and unemployment insuran ...

BY Financial Security Program Justin King

05.24.2021

A Call to Reimagine Work and Benefits

How must work and benefits be redesigned so that all workers—including those earning low and moderate wages or in nonstandard arrangements and others left out of private benefit systems—can meet their expenses, withstand financial shocks, and save for the future?

BY WorkRise Archana Pyati

05.10.2021

American Rescue Plan and the US System of Benefits

The American Rescue Plan signals the importance of taking a more holistic approach to supporting household financial security and the potential of such approach on ensuring households recover, in a more equitable way, from this pandemic.

BY Financial Security Program

03.29.2021

The Future of Worker Financial Security

The Aspen Institute Financial Security Program and WorkRise explored our research and held a conversation about building better on-ramps to financial security and economic mobility.

03.08.2021

Surveying SNAP & Fresh EBT Users in the Pandemic

Aspen FSP's interview on understanding how people receiving SNAP have fared over the past year – and exploring the messages that those people have for policymakers.

BY Financial Security Program Justin King

02.22.2021

The Path to a Better Safety Net

During the pandemic, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook and other online platforms have united people in frustration and celebration, and have created a valuable repository of guidance, user complaints and insights, and ideas for policy reform.

BY Financial Security Program Justin King

01.21.2021

Benefits21: A Modernized System of Benefits

A growing percentage of our workforce is disproportionally excluded from workplace benefits and often rely on a public system of benefits that is complex, fragmented, and not designed to meet their needs.

BY Financial Security Program Benefits21

09.21.2020

People, Technology, and the Safety Net

COVID-19 jolted the American economy — and it caused at least 30 million Americans to lose their jobs or have their working hours curtailed by April. Th ...

BY Financial Security Program Justin King

08.18.2020

Extend Enhanced Unemployment Benefits for 32 Million People in Need

Extending UI is Essential to Safeguarding Financial Security and Our Economic Recovery Within a week the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPU ...

BY Tim Shaw Financial Security Program

07.20.2020

How to Fix the Safety Net, According to Tech

The most important ingredient is a relentless focus on the people using the services.

BY Sara Soka Chad Smith Jordan Thomas Justin King

07.08.2020

Imagining a Workplace Safety Net Rooted in Equity

The uneven impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic throw the inadequacy and inequality of our workplace safety net into sharp relief.

BY Shelly Steward

06.12.2020

Stress Test: People, Technology, and the Safety Net In Response To Covid-19

What are we learning about technology and policy that will help us rebuild a benefits system for this moment and the rest of the 21st Century?

BY Financial Security Program

04.29.2020

Coronavirus Highlights Broken Safety Net for Millions of Workers

The pandemic response heightens the volatility and unpredictability of non-traditional and low-wage work.

BY Shelly Steward

03.13.2020

Why We’re Focusing on Household-Centric Benefits

The 2010s saw a decade of solid economic growth and low unemployment, but Americans don’t need macroeconomic data to know that has not translated i ...

BY Rachel Black Financial Security Program Justin King

02.18.2020

Designing Portable Benefits: A Resource Guide for Policymakers

This Resource Guide lays out the context for portable benefits and examines key design questions for policymakers to consider.

BY Natalie Foster Libby Reder Shelly Steward

06.06.2019

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