Building New Narratives on Work and Opportunity in the US South “Building New Narratives on Work and Opportunity in the US South," is the first of four conversations with members of the Aspen Institute’s Job Quality Fellowship, EOP.

How can we reimagine current narratives on economic opportunity around dignity, quality jobs, and community wealth? 📅 Join @aspeninstitute.bsky.social on February 19, 2:30–3:45 p.m. ET for Building New Narratives on Work and Opportunity in the US South.
🔗 Register: as.pn/narrativesonwork

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📅 Join @aspeninstitute.bsky.social @AspenEOP today, January 21, 2–3:15 p.m. ET for “Beyond 9 to 5: Facilitating Good Jobs for People with Unpredictable Schedules.” Let’s rethink flexibility, wages, and let’s #TalkGoodJobs for today's workers. Register: 🔗 www.aspeninstitute.org/events/beyon...

📅 Join @aspeneop.bsky.social  on January 21, 2–3:15 p.m. ET for “Beyond 9 to 5: Facilitating Good Jobs for People with Unpredictable Schedules” to hear our Executive Director's thoughts! Let’s rethink flexibility, wages, and let’s #TalkGoodJobs for today's workers.

https://as.pn/beyond9to5

Beyond 9 to 5: Facilitating Good Jobs for People with Unpredictable Schedules Join the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program on October 9th, 2025 from 2:00 to 3:15 Eastern for “Big Impact, Big Challenges: Lessons from Collaborating with Large Businesses to Improve Job ...

📅 Join @AspenEOP on January 21, 2–3:15 p.m. ET for “Beyond 9 to 5: Facilitating Good Jobs for People with Unpredictable Schedules.” Let’s rethink flexibility, wages, and let’s #TalkGoodJobs for today's workers.
Register today: 🔗 www.aspeninstitute.org/events/beyon...

Back to the Future of Work: Revisiting the Past and Shaping the Future In 2024, the Aspen Institute's Future of Work Initiative launched an editorial series examining the lessons learned from a decade of "future of work" discourse, with contributions from leaders in acad...

📅 Today, Dec 17, 2–3:15 p.m. ET, join us for “Back to the Future of Work: Revisiting the Past and Shaping the Future.” We’re closing out a yearlong look at a decade of #FutureOfWork insights — and exploring what comes next.
🔗 Register: www.aspeninstitute.org/events/back-...

Back to the Future of Work: Revisiting the Past and Shaping the Future In 2024, the Aspen Institute's Future of Work Initiative launched an editorial series examining the lessons learned from a decade of "future of work" discourse, with contributions from leaders in acad...

📅 On Dec 17, 2–3:15 p.m. ET, join @aspeneop.bsky.social for “Back to the Future of Work: Revisiting the Past and Shaping the Future.” We’re closing out a yearlong look at a decade of #FutureOfWork insights — and exploring what comes next.
🔗 Register: www.aspeninstitute.org/events/back-...

Join us in Austin for the 2026 Purpose Trust Ownership Conference!

🗓 February 26-27, 2026
📍The LINE Hotel, Austin, Texas
🎟️ Register now: trustownership.org#conference

🧠 Focus on real-world applications and community-building across sectors.

Backsliding on Child Protections: The Return of Child Labor in the US November 19

Child labor is making a comeback — and advocates are fighting back. Join @aspeneop.bsky.social Nov 19 for Backsliding on Child Protections with NC Field, Farmworker Justice, NCL, EPI & Iowa AFL-CIO.
Register: www.aspeninstitute.org/events/backs... #TalkOpportunity

How Will Latinos Shape the Future of the American Dream? How can we secure economic stability and mobility for Latino workers, families, and communities?

Latino success is America’s success. Explore how Latino entrepreneurs, workers, and innovators are redefining the future of opportunity in the US.Watch our conversation from 2018, hosted in partnership with @AspenLatinos: www.aspeninstitute.org/events/drive...
#HispanicHeritageMonth

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💡 Big impact, big challenges: Experts from the @aspeninstitute.bsky.social, WORC, Talent Rewire, and WorkLife Partnership explore strategies to improve frontline jobs. Oct. 9, 2 – 3:15pm ET. RSVP → as.pn/largebiz #JobQuality

Congratulations to all 17 new @aspeninstitute.bsky.social Economic Opportunities Program #JobQuality Fellows! These leaders will come together and focus on fixing work in the South and creating an economy that works for all, this coming year. Learn more: www.aspeninstitute.org/programs/job...

The Future of Equal Opportunity YouTube video by The Aspen Institute

I’ve been finding solace by stepping away from the headlines and spending time with the fighters. And so it was an honor to moderate @staceyabrams.com and @profmpastor.bsky.social at @eop.aspeninstitute.org's Future of Equal Opportunity conversation -- watch the convo: youtu.be/EGb6KgLlTAk?...

Banking on Skills: Cara Collective and BMO Bank Partner for Change This conversation explored the role of leadership development in the workforce development ecosystem in Tucson, AZ

Skills-based hiring can open doors for workers who are too often overlooked — and help businesses find the talent they need.
Join the @aspeninstitute.bsky.social, BMOBank, and Cara Collective today at 1– 2 p.m. ET to learn more.
🔗 www.aspeninstitute.org/events/banki...

Early Findings: Employer Perspectives on Skills Validation and Trust In our prior research, we’ve heard loud and clear from employers that: Late this summer, we released a survey to employers, asking them a variety of questions about skills validation, among other rela...

📢 New from UpSkill America’s Haley Glover @aspeninstitute.bsky.social:
Employers want skills, not just degrees. But AI resumes, fraud, & misalignment remain big challenges.
Check out our early findings on employer trust and skills validation:
🔗 www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/e...

Worker Power in the Age of AI Monopolies: Why We Need Structural Solutions Now Elizabeth Wilkins

To make sure AI serves workers—not just tech monopolies—we need bold action: corporate regulation, worker voice, and sectoral bargaining.

Read more from @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social on the scale of #AI concentration in a new blog w/ @eop.aspeninstitute.org ⤵️ www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/w...

For the first time, the gender wage gap widened 2 yrs in a row according to Census data. In 2024, women working full-time year-round made 81 cents on the dollar, down from 83 cents in 2023 & 84 cents in 2022. The wage gap was even wider for women of color. www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

Worker Power in the Age of AI Monopolies: Why We Need Structural Solutions Now Elizabeth Wilkins

To make sure AI serves workers we need bold action: corporate regulation, worker voice, and sectoral bargaining.
Read more about #AI and power from the @rooseveltinstitute.org’s @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social in this blog post for the Aspen Institute: www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/w...

📚 As kids head back to school, many carry more than books — they carry the weight of economic stress at home. Good jobs with fair pay, stability, and dignity aren’t just for workers. They’re essential for children’s learning, health, and future: thehill.com/opinion/fina... @matthelmer.bsky.social

To improve economic opportunity, we need better transit Going to morning class meant a four-hour journey by bus and shuttle for J, an adult vocational education student in Louisiana’s Capital Region. The drive to campus would have been 25 minutes by car, b...

🚍 Good jobs mean little if workers can’t reach them — and inadequate transportation keeps too many from opportunity. But solutions exist, and we can do better. Read more in this #LaborDay blog from our own Maxwell Johnson: www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/t...

Thrilled to be moderating The Future of Equal Opportunity with @eop.aspeninstitute.org next week.

I’ll be in conversation with luminaries like @staceyabrams.com , @kotagaleeoc.bsky.social , and @profmpastor.bsky.social to talk about the attacks on equity and how we can turn the tide around.

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🏛️ Which policies can help make equal opportunity real? On Sept 4, join the @aspeninstitute.bsky.social Economic Opportunities Program and leading experts to explore strategies for equity and economic mobility.
🕒 2:00 – 3:15pm ET | 💻 Zoom
🔗 Register: as.pn/equalopportunity
#TalkOpportunity

Resource Roundup: Algorithmic Management While some workers worry that artificial intelligence might spell their replacement, others have found that technology has become their boss. An increasing number of workers receive their schedules fr...

For an increasing number of workers, algorithms are the boss. Autonomous, data-driven technologies set schedules, monitor workers, and determine pay. Learn about the effects of algorithmic management on #JobQuality and ways to protect workers' interests. www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/r...

Fixing Work: Recent Lessons from the Field The Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program will soon release a report, Fixing Work: Lessons from Job Quality Practitioners, based on in-depth interviews with more than 20 leaders across the co...

📃 A new report from the Aspen Institute, “Fixing Work: Recent Lessons from the Field,” shares lessons from 20+ changemakers working to create good jobs with dignity, equity & opportunity. Read more and RSVP for the July 22 webinar: as.pn/fixingwork

Good Jobs, Stronger Communities: The Case for Creating a Job Quality Practice For too long, poor job quality has been accepted as inevitable. It is not. It is possible to improve work.

“Job quality is about how we choose to treat one another in our economic systems.” Discover how embedding #JobQuality into business practices not only benefits workers but also leads to stronger communities. Read more in this blog from @maureenc.bsky.social: www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/g...

Marketcrafters: The 100-Year Struggle To Shape the American Economy — A Book Talk with Chris Hughes Markets and our economy don’t just happen — they’re crafted. While we often hear about the “free market” as a natural force governed by the invisible hand, the reality is far more intentional.

Who gets to design markets? Join @aspeninstitute.bsky.social’s Economic Opportunities Program on June 5 at 3pm for a book talk with author @c-hughes.bsky.social and moderator @nataliefoster.bsky.social on the values, decisions, and power dynamics behind our economy. 🔗Sign up: as.pn/marketcrafters

The Changing Face of Retirement and the Future of Work: Big questions and Bold Solutions Next-gen retirement strategies will be central to the future of work What will retirement look like in the future and what does it mean for the future of work? How can we ensure that current workers as well as future generations, like the most recently born members of ...

Generation Beta is set for a work-life unlike any other — expect multiple careers and new jobs that haven't been invented yet. Prudential’s Dylan Tyson shares some retirement insights in this blog for the Aspen Institute’s #FutureOfWork series. www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/t...

Labor leader Maureen Conway launches the Good Jobs Compass, a new tool that supports workers and guides us all toward a better economy.

"All jobs should be good jobs. And, more importantly, all jobs CAN be good jobs."

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Here, @eop.aspeninstitute.org's @maureenc.bsky.social introduces the #GoodJobs Compass, a new tool that supports #workers and guides us all toward a better economy.

Working and Homeless in America — A Book Talk with Brian Goldstone “There Is No Place for Us” not only brings these unseen lives into focus but also forces us to confront a pressing question: If hard work is no longer enough to keep a roof over one’s head, what does ...

In his book “There Is No Place for Us,” journalist @brian-goldstone.bsky.social exposes how the decline of work and pay in the US has left many full-time workers homeless. Join @eop.aspeninstitute.org's @maureenc.bsky.social for a virtual book talk TODAY at 3:00 pm ET. RSVP: as.pn/workinghomeless