The Perils of Employment-Linked Insurance
We are all too familiar with the economic fallout that has resulted from the coronavirus pandemic, both at the individual and national levels. An estimated one in five workers has collected unemployment benefits and GDP decreased at an annual rate of 32.9% in the second quarter.
In Their Words: What Older Adults Struggling Financially Need
Despite the recent stimulus, increased vaccinations, and gathering momentum of reopenings across the country, millions are still struggling with their financial health. Ongoing economic uncertainty, job loss, and physical health concerns have caused many to shift financial priorities just to stay afloat. In the Financial Health Network’s latest…
Financial Wellness for Employees: Insights from Five Fintechs
Employer-channel fintechs play an increasingly crucial role in supporting employees’ financial health through products like low-cost loans, and financial coaching. The Financial Solutions Lab partnered with the Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis to examine the uptake, usage, and impact of five companies: Brightside, HoneyBee, Manifest, MedPut, and Onward.
The Future of Financial Wellness is Taking Shape
As the way we work changes, financial wellness should adapt too. Explore these new ideas that are shaping the future. While the initial thrust into remote work was a crisis response, it is now being embraced by both employees and employers. In fact, many companies plan to maintain remote workforces. Presented by Morgan Stanley at Work
Opportunities for FinHealth Innovation and Impact in Criminal Justice
People who are arrested, detained, and/or incarcerated often have interactions with the criminal justice system that lead to short-term financial crises and long-term financial instability for themselves and their families. In many cases, families forgo basic needs because of loss of income following their loved one’s incarceration. Punitive fines and fees create a cycle of […]
The fintech partnership helping Sterling Bancorp reach kids
Kids who save money early are likelier to become adults who attend college, own stocks, and exhibit other positive financial behaviors.
It cost Americans more than $66 million to cash their first stimulus checks. Why that could happen again with the $1,400 payments
Almost one year ago, Congress authorized the first $1,200 stimulus checks to help Americans cope with the unprecedented coronavirus pandemic.
Third stimulus check: Will you get a stimulus check — and how much?
President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan would provide a third round of federal stimulus checks to millions of Americans. Yet a new agreement between Mr. Biden and moderate Democratic Senators would limit the number of households that would qualify for the $1,400 checks, cutting off millions of other Americans who had been hoping for the stimulus money. […]
Two Ways Policy and Technology Can Support Struggling Student Loan Borrowers
Student debt remains a critical topic for both borrowers and policymakers. Many borrowers now face the added financial challenge of unemployment as a result of the pandemic, and policymakers are urgently seeking ways to support these individuals. Now consider that Black and Latinx borrowers are disproportionately affected by the economic fallout from the pandemic, while […]
COVID-19 has put ‘financially vulnerable’ Americans on even shakier footing.
Millions of “financially vulnerable” Americans have grown even more vulnerable during COVID-19, with lower-income households more likely to have experienced declines in their financial well-being, according to new data released Thursday.
New Financial Health Pulse Data Shows Millions of Americans Still Financially Struggling Amid Ongoing Pandemic
Food insecurity and fear of eviction pervasive among those hardest hit financially by pandemic with many borrowing money or cutting back on healthcare visits and medication
Frugal Solutions
The Financial Solutions Lab is showing how traditional financial organizations can co-create with nonprofits and entrepreneurs to improve the financial health of all Americans. Read the article on Stanford Social Innovation Review >>