Global Poverty

The Expanding Prosperity Impact Collaborative (EPIC), an initiative of the Aspen Institute’s Financial Security Program, is a first-of-its-kind, cross-sector effort to shine a light on economic forces that severely impact…

Robert Doar’s testimony before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development  Appropriate for experienced donors. My testimony today is informed by more than…

Homework, exams, extracurriculars – being in school comes with a certain amount of stress for everyone. But for some students, even attending school on a regular basis is a challenge…

There is a global threat to sustainable peace and development that is getting much-needed attention: fragility. Last week, the World Bank held its Fragility Forum in Washington D.C., Managing Risks for…

Migrants working abroad and sending back money is one of the biggest and often most overlooked forms of financial aid to poorer countries – often greater than formal overseas aid.…

In Los Angeles, an algorithm helps decide who — out of 58,000 homeless people — gets access to a small amount of available housing. In Indiana, the state used a…

Is school segregation getting worse? Plenty of people say yes, including scholars, journalists, and civil-rights advocates. For the first time in years, there’s something approximating a consensus: Racially divided schools are a major…

New York State’s new graduation options were meant to ensure students aren’t unfairly kept from graduation, but a new analysis found a drawback: black and low-income students are more likely to take…

The proportion of women who have reported experiencing physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime ranges from 15 percent in Japan and Laos, to 68 percent…

Mentoring is one of oldest ways that people have found to connect with each other and be changed in the process.  One would think that quotes like these would seem…

After months spent talking about expensive new programs he’d like to see, Superintendent Nikolai Vitti says he’s found money in the Detroit district’s budget to hire a slew of educators…

A few minutes south of the vineyards in Napa is the community of American Canyon where Napa Junction Elementary serves a diverse group of K-5 learners–about two-thirds are Latino, new to English…