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Business and Markets

The Future of Boards: Three Next Moves for Directors

The COVID-19 pandemic and America’s reckoning on racial justice and equity have amplified demands for companies to do more to solve deep systemic problems.

BY Miguel Padró

Blog Post

06.30.2020
Business and Markets

America’s Corporate Governance System Is Racist Too

Corporate governance may not commit physical violence against people of color, but its very design causes real harm.

BY Miguel Padró

Blog Post

06.29.2020
Family Finances

Even in a Pandemic, We're Murdering Over a $20 Bill

We have failed to provide people with basic financial security. Black people have unequivocally faced the brunt of this failure.

BY Financial Security Program & 1 more

Blog Post

06.12.2020
Employment and Jobs

Talking Opportunity in Ohio

Last week, Maureen Conway (vice president for policy programs at the Aspen Institute and executive director of th ...

BY Economic Opportunities Program

Of Interest

08.05.2019
US Economy

How Do Rich Neighborhoods Exist So Close to Poor Ones?

The research of Harvard economist Raj Chetty shows that the scale of inequality is incredibly small.

BY Joe Pinsker

Blog Post

06.26.2019
Family Finances

Thinking Big – And Thinking Small

Innovations of all sizes will be needed to create opportunities for struggling Americans.

BY Ray Boshara

Blog Post

07.06.2017
US Economy

How the Racial Wealth Gap Threatens Our Future

From the 2017 Aspen Institute Summit on Inequality & Opportunity, featuring Bill Bynum (HOPE), José Quiñonez (Mission Asset Fund), Tom Shapiro (Brandeis University), & Gillian White (The Atlantic).

BY Ascend at the Aspen Institute & 4 more

Video

03.16.2017
Around the Institute

Wealth Inequality and the Newest Americans

Examining the racial wealth gap through the lens of immigration reveals an untold story.

BY José A. Quiñonez

Blog Post

03.15.2017
Business and Markets

Explaining the Racial Gap in Business Ownership

Entrepreneurial success will be one valuable outcome from addressing wealth and educational disparities faced by African-Americans and Latinos. Universal policies to narrow the racial wealth gap will help to realize the promise that business ownership holds for addressing inequalities.

BY & 1 more

Blog Post

02.06.2017
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