Aspen Institute launches Job Quality Center of Excellence focused on wages, scheduling and benefits

The Aspen Institute’s Economic Opportunities Program announced in a blog post that it has launched the Job Quality Center of Excellence, a new initiative focused on improving job quality across the United States. The center will concentrate on core issue areas including wages, scheduling and benefits, the institute said, and will collect evidence, frameworks and resources to support better workplace practices.

The announcement, posted on the Aspen Institute website, frames the center as part of the institute’s broader work on economic opportunity and labor-market improvement. The Economic Opportunities Program, a Washington, D.C.-based initiative, said the new center is intended to surface policy and practice approaches that can make work more stable and financially sustainable for workers.

Organizers described the center as an organizing point for research and practical interventions across distinct issue areas rather than a single-policy campaign. The site-based post highlights wages, scheduling and benefits as initial priorities and invites stakeholders—researchers, practitioners and policymakers—to engage with the center’s work.

The Aspen Institute is widely known in Washington as a convening organization and think tank; placing a job-quality hub within its Economic Opportunities Program signals an effort to translate research and convenings into actionable tools for employers, advocates and local policymakers. The blog post links readers to the center’s page for further information and resources.

A DC-based think tank launching a job-quality hub shapes local and national conversations about worker pay, scheduling and benefits—and offers tools that could influence DC employers and policymakers.

• The Aspen Institute’s Economic Opportunities Program announced the Job Quality Center of Excellence in a blog post.
• The center will focus initially on wages, scheduling and benefits as the primary issue areas.
• It will collect evidence, frameworks and resources for practitioners and policymakers.
• The Aspen Institute is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and is known for policy convenings and research.
• The blog post directs readers to the Aspen site for more information about the center.

Watch for the center’s first publications, convenings and resource releases on the Aspen Institute website to see which policy solutions and local partnerships it prioritizes.

sources Aspen Institute