Spark & Expand
The Aspen Institute's Walter Isaacson and Sen. Mary Landrieu
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Two Generations, One Future
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Ascend at The Aspen Ideas Festival
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A higher percentage of U.S. children live in single-parent households than do children in all other industrialized countries studied in a recent report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Learn morenextAscend brings the perspectives, strengths, and resilience of low-income families to inform programs and policies:
· Ascend invests in parent ambassadors;
· We engage family voices through nonpartisan focus groups and surveys;
· We develop publications, products, and tools that partners can use to inform and expand their work on two-generation approaches.
Whether you are a policy expert, program leader, researcher, public official, or business leader, there are ways to spark and expand a two-generation conversation in your own work. To find out how, visit this page in January 2014 for a communications toolkit.
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““Maybe just an opportunity to get a better job or to advance. You know, get a job and then maybe be able to advance.” ”
— White Single Mother, Colorado, 2011 Ascend-Commissioned Focus Groups
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