The Worker Financial Wellness Initiative – Making Workers’ Financial Security and Health a C-Suite Priority
The Worker Financial Wellness Initiative was designed to make workers' financial health a priority for executives. Learn why we believe America's largest companies should conduct a Worker Financial Wellness Assessment. JUST Capital and PayPal, in collaboration with the Financial Health Network and the Good Jobs Institute, have established a new initiative to make workers’ financial security and health a C-suite and investor priority. The organizations are calling on the CEOs of America’s largest companies to conduct a Worker Financial Wellness Assessment as a vital first step toward understanding the financial vulnerability of their workforce. Leading research shows that when workers are more financially secure, key business outcomes such as productivity, customer satisfaction, and employee turnover and engagement also improve.
Pulse Points Spring 2021: The Effects of Stimulus Payments and Tax Refunds on Consumer Finances
Stimulus payments and tax refunds caused account inflows to spike 33% in January and 42% in March, according to analysis from our new Pulse Points series.
Measuring the financial health of Americans
Despite the vast data collected by our government, we lack an accepted method of assessing financial health. Learn why we must measure not only each household’s annual income but also its annual spending, saving, borrowing, and planning habits to identify communities whose financial health is poor, deteriorating, or failing to keep pace with overall improvements.
Fintech as a Solution for Employee Financial Health: Findings from Five Exploratory Studies
We partnered with five fintechs – Brightside, HoneyBee, Manifest, MedPut, and Onward to explore how they’re used and their impact on employees’ financial lives.
Earned Wage Access and Direct-to-Consumer Advance Usage Trends
One in five families has less than two weeks of liquid savings. For the many U.S. workers living paycheck to paycheck, financial distress can occur in the time between earning and accessing wages.
Financial Health and Criminal Justice: The Impacts of Involvement
Across each phase of involvement with the criminal justice system, individuals and their families often experience negative financial health outcomes.
3 Approaches to Using Administrative Data To Measure Financial Health
Choosing the best approach to implement will depend on a company’s proposed use case, available data types, and resources available for analysis.
FinHealth Spend Report 2021
With this report – an evolution of our Financially Underserved Market Size Study – we shed light on how much households paid for a variety of everyday financial products and services in 2020, through lenses of financial health, income, race, and ethnicity.
Designing Digital Financial Advisory Tools for Low-to-Moderate Income Older Adults
Most low-to-moderate income (LMI) older adults are financially challenged to reach retirement and maintain their quality of life as they age. This report showcases research insights and design features that financial service providers can leverage to better support the needs of this group as they approach retirement, produced in partnership with the Institute of Consumer Money Management.
Non-Prime Tracker Report
Provided by Elevate Credit, this research discusses the trend of decreased household income for prime and non-prime folks alike since the pandemic began. With this trend continuing, this decrease is likely to manifest itself within holiday spending.
2020 U.S. Household Bill Pay Market Size & Category Breakout
Provided by doxo, this research reveals that Americans spend $2.75 trillion annually – over one fifth (21%) of all U.S. consumer spending – across 11 primary bill payment categories.
$600 Stimulus Check Impact Report
Provided by doxo, this research examines consumers' reactions toward the $600 stimulus checks they received from the U.S. federal government in 2020.