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Employment and Jobs

Let's Choose to Improve Job Quality

Job quality is a choice, and we can choose to make it better.

BY Maureen Conway

Blog Post

09.03.2021
Employment and Jobs

EOP Newsletter, August 2021

The COVID-19 crisis brings new urgency to our work to improve jobs, expand business ownership, and advance economic opportunity.

BY Economic Opportunities Program

Of Interest

08.31.2021
Employment and Jobs

Congrats to Liz Shuler and AFL-CIO

Liz has played a leading role in advancing job quality, racial and gender equity, and economic justice.

BY Economic Opportunities Program

Of Interest

08.23.2021
Employment and Jobs

EOP Newsletter, June 2021

The COVID-19 crisis brings new urgency to our work to improve jobs, expand business ownership, and advance economic opportunity.

BY Economic Opportunities Program

Of Interest

07.06.2021
Employment and Jobs

EOP Newsletter, May 2021

The COVID-19 crisis brings new urgency to our work to improve jobs, expand business ownership, and advance economic opportunity.

BY Economic Opportunities Program

Of Interest

05.28.2021
Small Business

Women Entrepreneurs Need Access to Capital

While the Paycheck Protection Program was intended to help small businesses hit hardest by COVID-19, it failed to deliver on its promise.

BY Geri Stengel, Forbes

Blog Post

01.06.2021
Small Business

Helping Small Businesses Grow: A Conversation With Richenda Van Leeuwen

Richenda Van Leeuwen joined the Aspen Institute as Executive Director of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) in September. She is an ambassador for equitable and inclusive economic development and brings a breadth of knowledge and experience to leading the work of ANDE—a global network that supports the success of small and growing businesses (SGBs) around the world. She spoke with the Institute’s President and CEO, Dan Porterfield, about the importance of ANDE’s work and the impact of investing in SGBs as a method of changemaking.

BY Daniel R. Porterfield

Of Interest

01.04.2021
Small Business

Making Small Business Lending Work for More People Without Anyone Noticing

There’s no equivalent for Fannie Mae when it comes to microloans — until now.

BY Oscar Perry Abello, Next City

Blog Post

12.15.2020
Small Business

Using Loans to Close the Racial Wealth Gap

CDFIs have shown that they can provide a financial lifeline to Black, Hispanic, and female business owners who have been neglected by mainstream banks.

BY Marc Gunther, The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Blog Post

12.10.2020
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