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The Aspen Institute Financial Security Program
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Aspen FSP works to solve financial challenges facing US households to make financial security for all a priority.
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Aspen Institute Financial Security Program’s (Aspen FSP) mission is to illuminate and solve the most critical financial challenges facing American households and to make financial security for all a top national priority. We aim for nothing less than a more inclusive economy with reduced wealth inequality and shared prosperity. We believe that transformational change requires innovation, trust, leadership, and entrepreneurial thinking. Aspen FSP galvanizes a diverse set of leaders across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to solve the most critical financial challenges. We do this through deep, deliberate private and public dialogues and by elevating evidence-based research and solutions that will move us beyond merely managing household financial scarcity to creating the conditions of security and well-being that will enable full participation, agency, and dignity in both our economy and our democracy. Together, we can change the future of wealth in America by increasing tenfold the wealth of households of color and those in the bottom half of the wealth distribution in the United States.
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🗓️ Mark your calendars for our 10/21 livestream on the impact of Early Wealth Building Accounts with Invest America 🗓️ Moderator Ray Boshara will be joined by Milken Institute's Kevin Hassett and Robert Shapiro to discuss how early investment accounts can offer young Americans a meaningful ownership stake in the economy. Register now ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eaujPTs5
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📢 Register today for our 10/24 webinar, It's Women in the Economy, Stupid! featuring Heather McCulloch, Joanna Smith-Ramani, Josie Cox, and Chabeli Carrazana!
Today, women in the U.S. are driving the growth and prosperity of our economy. They're more likely to be working than ever before and make up half the workforce; they're graduating from college and starting businesses at higher rates than men; and by 2030, women will hold $30 trillion in financial assets - a 300% increase 📈from 2020! But our economic systems - tax, labor, credit, insurance, retirement, and others - were never designed to work for women. In fact, policymakers and business leaders rarely ask if women benefit from public policy and corporate practices that define women's economic choices. And, as a result, they often don't! So how do we build an economy that works for women? How do we remove barriers standing in their way? How do we change our economic systems so they supports women to in their multiple roles as breadwinners, entrepreneurs, investors, and caregivers? These are some of the questions we’ll be asking journalists, authors, filmmakers and other thought leaders in the Future of Women in the Economy dialogues over the next few months. Please join us for our pre-election, kick-off discussion: It’s Women in the Economy, Stupid!, where we'll be joined by @Chabeli Carrazana, economy reporter for The 19th and @Josie Cox, journalist and author of Women Money Power. Our discussion will delve into the past and present roles of women - as breadwinners, entrepreneurs, investors and caregivers - and how to redesign our economy so it works for all women. Please join us!!! 📝 Register here: https://lnkd.in/gvwCyxyG The Aspen Institute The Aspen Institute Financial Security Program Ida Rademacher Joanna Smith-Ramani Jacki Zehner Madison Limansky Jennifer Klein Latifa Lyles Dwana Franklin-Davis Miriam Warren Jasmine Thomas Julie Kashen Nicole Jorwic Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner Joan Blades Annika Little Erin Currier Elena Chavez Quezada The Representation Project
It's Women in the Economy, Stupid!
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How can small businesses drive wealth creation in local communities? That’s one of the questions we asked LA-based civic leaders, business owners, and financial institutions at a recent discussion hosted by U.S. Bank and Aspen FSP. Part of a series of dialogues across the country, this conversation harnessed the insights of over a dozen local leaders and FSP’s Ida Rademacher and Genevieve Melford. The goal? To understand how small businesses can promote financial security and wealth-building in Los Angeles. 🙌 Thanks to our U.S. Bank colleagues, Sekou Kaalund and Devon Bray and to our participants, Maria Kim, Ryan Groves, Varun Gupta, Benny Torres, Dawn Comer, Rachel Freeman, Carolina Martinez, Adriana Eiriz, Anika Heavener, Roberto Barragan and Silvia R. González!
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Last week, we teamed up with U.S. Bank 🤝 to host cross-sector leaders for an engaging discussion about how small businesses can promote financial security in Charlotte, NC. Over a dozen local entrepreneurs, civic leaders, and financial service providers gathered alongside Aspen FSP’s Joanna Smith-Ramani and Pamela Hall to identify pathways for financial institutions to better serve local businesses and support wealth creation in their community. Thank you to our US Bank colleagues Sekou Kaalund and Dee O'Dell and to our guests Takira Dale, Ryan Gremillion, Robyn Lake Hamilton, Christopher (Chris) M Jackson, Wilson Lester, Dr. Alphonso O. Ogbuehi, Henry Rock, Terik Tidwell, and Rocio Gonzalez-Zornosa!
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Congratulations to the 2024 Finance Leaders Fellows, including Aspen FSP’s own Ida Rademacher 🎉 This cohort gathers 23 global thought leaders and finance industry experts who are working to create a more equitable society. Over the next two years, the Fellows will engage in leadership training and partnership building to address today’s most pressing economic challenges such as closing the racial wealth gap, expanding access to affordable housing, and promoting ethical investing. We’re thrilled to have our co-executive director join this crucial work!
Introducing the 2024 Class of Finance Leaders Fellows! This cohort brings together leaders from across the financial ecosystem—central banks, private equity, social finance, and institutional investors—to leverage the industry’s vast resources and influence to address systemic challenges and advance a more just and equitable society. Over their two year Fellowship experience, through intimate dialogues and deep introspection, the Fellows will be ignited and challenged to embrace the responsibility and opportunity they have as industry leaders to create positive change in their communities and around the world. Working across the foremost financial markets and institutions worldwide, these 23 Fellows join a wider community of nearly 4,000 values-based leaders in over 60 countries as part of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Join us in welcoming to the 2024 Finance Leaders Fellows, and learn more about this year's cohort at the link below.
Announcing the 2024 Class of Finance Leaders Fellows
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Kadisha Davis’ personal experience with homelessness has deeply informed her dedication to creating fairer and more effective systems to combat housing insecurity. In her ongoing effort to help others in similar situations, she shares her wisdom as a Housing Policy Fellow at the Family Homelessness Coalition and as a valuable member of Aspen FSP's Community Advisory Group (CAG). Learn more about Kadisha’s mission, which includes person-centered advocacy, in this Q&A with Aspen Partnership for an Inclusive Economy (APIE): https://lnkd.in/emdEtBdM Rachel Black, Riani Carr, Jason E., Tim Shaw, Sarah Zetterli (Pictured l. to r. at the 2024 Financial Resilience Summit: Riani Carr, Aspen FSP; Eboni Worsley, CAG member; Kadisha Davis, CAG member; Alana Gracey, CAG member; Tim Shaw, Aspen FSP.)
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🙌 After a year of hosting working groups to coordinate with state and federal governments around improving benefits delivery, Aspen FSP and our partners at the federal government’s interagency Facing a Financial Shock team are closing out the incubation phase and now supporting the transition of partnerships, ideas, and solutions to other spaces where they can embed and continue to grow. Each group created space to share best practices, build networks and partnerships, and identify solutions to long-standing challenges in the public benefits delivery space. In this blog post, we summarize and celebrate the impact these cross-sector leaders have had in the past year: https://lnkd.in/e8YwkQsa Tim Shaw, Jason E., Rachel Black, Riani Carr
Capturing the Impact of Public Benefits Coordination
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Kara Woolley (Watkins), senior program manager for Aspen FSP’s Inclusive Saving and Investing Initiative, recently spoke with AARP about how early 401(k) withdrawals widen the racial wealth gap. One 🔥 quote: "It’s no secret that Black and Hispanic workers earn less than their white counterparts, but the disparity in early withdrawals persists even when income gaps are absent, Woolley says. 'Our findings are showing that people with the same retirement savings plan and making the same amount will end up with vastly different balances in their accounts,' she says. Read the full article (which also cites data from the Collaborative for Equitable Retirement Savings!): https://lnkd.in/epRX2Smw Karen Biddle Andres, Ida Rademacher, Jason E., Morningstar, Defined Contribution Institutional Investment Association (DCIIA)
Black, Hispanic Workers Make More 401(k) Withdrawals
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As this Salon.com article by Daria S. notes, "With homeownership increasingly out of reach, the stakes for fixing the nation's broken 'wealth escalator' grow." Katherine Lucas McKay, Aspen FSP's associate director of insights & evidence, contributed thoughts on why the current system isn't working and what that means for generational wealth building. 🗞 Read the article: https://lnkd.in/eZdpExC4