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Employment and Jobs

Toward Shared Prosperity: The Promise of Employee Stock Ownership Plans

Over the past half century, income stagnation and a drop in the number of good jobs have decreased the share of income enjoyed by people in the lower and m ...

BY Maxwell Johnson

Blog Post

06.08.2023
Racial Equity

Scaling Lending: Strategies & Tactics for High-Volume Originations

This paper shares key lessons on microloan origination, including practices of CDFIs that are originating thousands of loans annually.

BY Eric Weaver & 2 more

Publication

03.14.2023
Family Finances

101 Solutions for Inclusive Wealth Building

Having wealth, or a family's assets minus their debts, is important not just for the rich—everyone needs wealth to thrive. Yet building the amount of wea ...

BY Katherine Lucas McKay & 1 more

Publication

04.26.2022
Family Finances

Disparities in Debt

Racial wealth inequality has been pervasive in the United States from the earliest days of colonization 400 years ago. Despite Constitutional guarantees of ...

BY Katherine Lucas McKay & 2 more

Publication

02.07.2022
Family Finances

Foundations of a New Wealth Agenda

In The State of Financial Security 2020, the Aspen Financial Security Program identified the urgent need for a new wealth agenda in the United States, grou ...

BY Financial Security Program & 2 more

Publication

11.30.2021
Racial Equity

Scaling Lending to Entrepreneurs of Color

Providing loans and grants to diverse entrepreneurs has been seen by many as an important way to address the racial wealth gap.

BY Eric Weaver & 2 more

Publication

11.17.2021
Economic Development

Closing the Racial Wealth Gap by Supporting Black-Owned Banks

The National Black Bank Fund and Foundation (NBBF) are leading in the racial justice movement through economic justice.

BY Aspen Global Leadership Network

Video

07.27.2021
Employment and Jobs

To Build Back Better, Job Quality Is the Key

We must build an economy where people can work with dignity, support themselves and their loved ones, and contribute to a healthy and thriving society.

BY Maureen Conway & 3 more

Publication

04.14.2021
Family Finances

The Whiteness of Wealth Book Talk

Aspen FSP invites you to join us for a special conversation with author and law professor Dorothy A. Brown to celebrate the launch of her new book.

Event

02.24.2021
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