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Family Finances

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 & 1 more

Publication

05.24.2021
Family Finances

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 & 1 more

Blog Post

05.10.2021
Family Finances

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

Blog Post

03.29.2021
Family Finances

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.

Event

03.08.2021
Family Finances

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 & 1 more

Blog Post

02.22.2021
Family Finances

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 & 1 more

Publication

01.21.2021
Family Finances

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 & 1 more

Publication

09.21.2020
Family Finances

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 & 1 more

Publication

08.18.2020
Family Finances

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 & 1 more

Blog Post

07.20.2020
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