Severe weather can disrupt financial health, yet fewer than expected Americans living in disaster-prone areas carry residential insurance.

Despite their ubiquity, people with disabilities are frequently marginalized, resulting in profound impacts to their economic well-being.

What are Americans paying for financial services as the country emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic? This year’s FinHealth Spend Report – our long-running national study on the costs of financial services to U.S. households – reveals that spending has soared in the past year amid a turbulent economy and persistent inflation.

In our first report to focus on the Financial Health Network’s home city, we explore the realities of the financial lives of people in Chicago and neighboring Cook County suburbs.

Our 2022 U.S. Trends Report tells a far different story than prior years. Data from the nationally representative probability-based Pulse survey, fielded in April and May 2022, show that financial health declined for the first time in the project’s five-year history.