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The Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program
Employee Ownership
Job Quality
ESOP
Employee Stock Ownership Plans
Economic Opportunity
Community Development Financial Institutions
Worker Cooperatives
Artificial Intelligence
Esops
Workforce Development
Labor Rights
Employee Stock Ownership Plans (esops)
Child Labor
Small Businesses
Small Business
Aspen Institute
Workplace Democracy
Employee Stock Ownership Plan
Impact Investing
Racial Equity

The Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program advances strategies, policies, and ideas to help low- and moderate-income people thrive in a changing economy. This podcast features audio from our events, webinars, interviews, and other conversations. Learn more at aspeninstitute.org/eop

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“Social contract” has quickly become one of the most-used, least-defined phrases in the AI policy conversation. This first event in a two-part series will trace the origin and history of the American social contract, examining how work became the anc... more

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For decades, economists and policymakers have debated how to help workers get better jobs. But what if the more fundamental problem is that employers have systematically redesigned work itself to make a third of the workforce expendable? In his forth... more

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Many employers want to help workers build new skills, advance into better jobs, and meet evolving business needs, but the systems designed to support employer-provided education benefits can be difficult to navigate. Longstanding tax policies like Se... more

CDFI boards, leadership teams, investors, and regulators have long relied on a familiar set of financial metrics to assess organizational performance. While measures such as delinquency, loan loss rates, self-sufficiency, and net asset ratios remain ... more

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Della Adams
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Quentin Bradley
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Joe Dunlap
Director of Training and Development
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Harrison Diskin
Thought partner on the webinar
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Stephen Dawson
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Episode: The Necessity of Employee-Centered Strategies: A Book Talk with Steve Dawson and Jerry Rubin

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Maureen Conway
Host of the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program events and interviews; guides conversations and introduces speakers.

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    I listened to the interview with Marjorie Kelly. I loved her talking about what’s wrong and destructive about our current global economic system. I did not appreciate, however Maureen Conways approach to the Q&A. She was rude to the audience by letting them ask their questions and then telling them that there wasn’t time for an answer. Extremely off putting.

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Guests and topics consistently center on worker ownership and policy impact.
Content is informative for sponsors seeking impact-focused, policy-oriented audiences.
Strong emphasis on practical, real-world applications and governance in ownership models.
Q&A handling can feel rushed or dismissive to audience members.

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How Tax Policy Can Help Employers Expand Access to Learning
Q: What are common mistakes employers make when modernizing education benefits, and how can they avoid them?
Common mistakes include keeping clawbacks, failing to align with talent goals, and not integrating education benefits with L&D and HR systems; avoiding these by starting with outcomes, defining clear goals, and designing programs that support internal mobility and retention.
How Tax Policy Can Help Employers Expand Access to Learning
Q: What changes are coming in 2027 for Section 127 and how will that shift the landscape?
The cap will be indexed to inflation, increasing gradually each year, which broadens the coverage and helps more employees access education benefits without eroding value over time.
How Tax Policy Can Help Employers Expand Access to Learning
Q: Can you give a quick 60-second version of what section 127 is and why employers should care?
Section 127 provides tax-free coverage for education benefits up to a capped amount, creating parity with other employer-provided benefits; the key is that it makes education assistance broadly accessible to employees, not just the highly paid or narrowly defined groups.
Metrics that Matter: Improving Financial Analysis of CDFI Small Business Lenders
Q: What is the optimal time horizon for this analysis?
They prefer a long-run view, ideally covering periods such as 2008–2025 to capture different risk environments, while recognizing data limitations and tailoring the period to what an organization can support.
Metrics that Matter: Improving Financial Analysis of CDFI Small Business Lenders
Q: Has MyCDFI made suboptimal financial choices in order to meet funder goals or covenants?
The presenters note that covenants can push organizations toward suboptimal choices, and the new metrics aim to reveal trade-offs more clearly, helping institutions manage toward better overall performance rather than just meeting covenants.

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The program frequently hosts experts and practitioners in employee ownership, wealth-building, and workforce development, spanning policy makers, funders, researchers, and leaders from philanthropy and business. Episodes typically explore how ownership models—ESOPs, worker cooperatives, and related structures—can boost productivity, job quality, and economic opportunity, often weaving in governance, capital, and policy considerations. A standout theme is the practical, real-world impact of ownership on communities and workplaces, with concrete case studies and policy ideas. Notable is the persistent emphasis on aligning capital with mission and democracy, alongside a readiness to connect high-level theory to on-the-ground organizational cha... more

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