Top Takeaways
Overall financial health in America has improved since 2019, but gains may be temporary.
More than two-thirds of people in America (167 million people) are not Financially Healthy.
Financial health disparities have widened by race and income, and persisted across gender.
Black Americans, people with low incomes, and women are bearing the brunt of the COVID-19 crisis.
Data Spotlight
New Pulse data from August 2020 reveals profound disparities in financial health across race and ethnicity.
Our Supporters
The U.S. Financial Health Pulse is made possible through a founding partnership with Flourish, a venture of The Omidyar Group. Additional support is provided by MetLife Foundation, a founding sponsor of our financial health work, and AARP.
The Financial Health Network is partnering with the University of Southern California Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research to field the study to its online panel, the Understanding America Study.
Study participants who agree to share their transactional and account data use Plaid’s data connectivity services to authorize their data for analysis.
