Economic Connectedness: Building Relationships that Expand Opportunity

Many Americans today live in socioeconomic silos. Neighborhoods, schools, and even sports leagues offer few opportunities for connection between people of different financial status. As communities remain economically stratified, it is easy for Americans to be surrounded primarily by those who share the same class background.  

Please join the American Academy of Arts & Sciences for the launch of a new resource to help bridge these divides. Speakers will discuss why economic connectedness matters and how everyone can get involved in fostering the cross-class relationships that our economy and our democracy need.  

This work is part of the Academy’s Commission on Reimagining Our Economy, whose final report calls for more economically connected communities. Join us to learn more about economic connectedness and what civic groups, schools, and local communities are doing to build it today.