Who Trusts Financial Institutions?
New Financial Health Pulse® data show that trust in financial institutions is uneven, with substantial racial and ethnic disparities across key dimensions of banking.
Financial Health Pulse® 2025 Chicago Trends Report
The 2025 Chicago Trends Report finds that financial vulnerability in Chicago has declined slightly since 2022, signaling resilience amid ongoing economic pressure. This place-based analysis shows that while stark neighborhood disparities persist across wealth, homeownership, and financial stability, targeted solutions can build on pockets of resilience.
Essential Benefits: Paid Family Leave
With more workers balancing jobs and caregiving, offering paid family leave can help employers support worker well-being and key business outcomes.
FinHealth Spend 2025: The Cost of Financial Services For American Households
Financial Health Network research reveals that Americans spent $455 billion in financial services fees and interest in 2024 as credit costs, student loans, and deep inequities strain households.
The Financial Health and Material Hardships of Rural America
Financial insecurity and healthcare shortages weigh heavily on rural communities, a new Financial Health Pulse® analysis finds.
FinHealth Standards for Spending Management Products: Evaluating Checking Accounts Across the Financial Services Industry
Explore which of the 12 FinHealth Standards are already gaining traction across widely available checking accounts, along with areas providers can prioritize to unlock better outcomes for all.
Financial Health Pulse® 2025 U.S. Trends Report
Our 2025 report reveals a mixed picture: modest improvements in households’ financial health in the short term and deep disparities over the long term.
The Financial Health of Nonprofit Workers
America’s 12 million nonprofit workers play a vital role in our economy, yet many lack the job benefits needed to support their financial health.
Essential Benefits: A New North Star for Wage and Benefit Design
A first-of-its-kind study reveals which compensation elements are linked to improved worker financial health.
Financial Health Runs in the Family: Intergenerational Trends and Opportunities
Family members don’t live in silos, and financial health solutions can’t, either. How can we take a holistic approach to meet every generation’s needs?
Incomplete, Not Obsolete: A 401(k) Toolkit To Help Solve America’s Retirement Crisis
As the first generation to rely on 401(k)s nears retirement, large swaths of Americans don’t have enough saved. Was the “do-it-yourself” approach to retirement savings a mistake?
Memorandum of the Financial Health Network, Consumers Reports, and SaverLife as Amici Curae in Forcht Bank, NA vs. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
This Memorandum is submitted in support of intervenor Financial Technology Association’s opposition to plaintiffs’ and defendants’ motions for summary judgment and in support of intervenor’s cross-motion. Amici are non-profit organizations dedicated to advancing the financial health of American households.
