This piece is an introduction to job quality in the US food supply chain, with a focus on poultry and meat processing, and on farm labor. The piece also highlights the prevalence of child labor in these industries and the elevated risk for many immigrant workers in the food supply chain.

This piece is a call to action for workforce development, advocating not just for a job quality framework for the sector’s work with clients but also for the need to increase job quality for practitioners themselves.

This op-ed, originally published in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, discusses how philanthropy can help support job quality as the federal government invests in clean energy and infrastructure.

This piece reflects on the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program’s event “ESOPs, Job Quality, and Wealth Inequality: The Potential of Employee Stock Ownership Plans,” which discusses the potential for ESOPs to improve job quality and build meaningful wealth for workers.

This article discusses EOP’s research and lessons learned on how philanthropy, employers, practitioners and policymakers can support good jobs for young adults.

In this interview, Chris Fredericks, founder and CEO of the employee owned company Empowered Ventures, reflects on methods to grow employee ownership and the benefits of employee ownership for a company and its workers.

This piece reflects on the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program’s event “Economics Reimagined: A Discussion on Building a Human Rights Economy,” which discussed how to build an economic system that values and centers the well being of people.

This piece reflects on the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program’s event “The Promise of Guaranteed Income: A New Tool to Improve Jobs and Empower Workers,” which introduced the Institute’s recent work on the subject and highlighted how guaranteed income can play a vital role in helping people gain economic security and stability.

This piece reflects on the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program’s event “Democratizing Work: The Role, Opportunities, and Challenges of Worker Cooperatives in the US,” which introduced the US movement for worker cooperatives and discussed their potnetial to improve job quality.

This piece from the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program discusses how placing trust in workers is not just important for job quality but also improves business outcomes, as well as reflecting on the economy-wide implications of increasing trust in workers.