Thrivent: A Purposeful Approach To Financial Services
Through its purpose-based financial products and services, Thrivent helps clients lead lives of service and faith.
Lifelong Learning and Financial Health Across Generations
As older adults live and work longer, lifelong learning is becoming more common. How can cross-sector leaders make higher education a tool to build financial health?
One of the Greatest Threats to Wealth Transfer May Be All in the Family
With trillions of dollars expected to move across generations in the decades ahead, inheritance disputes have severe implications for financial health.
Building for All: Access is a Design Choice
How do your product and servicing decisions shape who gets to participate? Learn what institutions can change today to reimagine and deploy more accessible financial solutions.
Ownership as a Pathway to Retirement Security
Ownership is a foundation for stability, dignity, and generational opportunity. Explore how approaches like community-owned real estate and employee ownership can unlock lasting wealth for more people.
Atlanta Builds: When Innovation Meets Real Lives
How do we ensure innovation expands opportunity instead of deepening inequities? Using Atlanta as a case study, we’ll explore how new ideas actually land in people’s lives.
AI That Works for People: Guardrails for Financial Health
As AI reshapes how people get financial advice, get up to speed on the pillars of responsible innovation and explore safeguards to prevent bias, misinformation, and harm.
FinHealth Face-Off: Real Scenarios, Real Solutions
Watch experts tackle real financial challenges in this game show-style session, exploring practical solutions and systems-level approaches to move households from financial strain to lasting stability.
No Margin for Error: Finding Housing in an Unforgiving Economy
As trust in the housing market erodes, examine how rising costs push working families into crisis—and what it will take to design a housing system with stability at the core.
Finding Our Balance
Jennifer Tescher, founder and CEO of the Financial Health Network, will deliver the opening remarks. In her keynote, she will spell out the three converging disruptions shaping the future of financial services and why they represent an opening to build a financial system that couldn't have existed before.
From a Challenging Childhood to a Chosen Family: Yousef’s Story
On his own earlier than planned, 30-year-old Yousef faces a catch-22: not enough education for stable work, not enough savings for more education.
When Economic Strain Sparks Dreams of Policy Change: Margarita’s Story
Growing up in an economically diverse city showed Margarita, now a college junior, how place shapes financial destiny.
Navigating Nonprofit Work in Uncertain Times: Ori’s Story
Working at a nonprofit was a dream come true for Ori, until funding cuts put her job and personal finances on shaky ground.
The Real Cost of Being a Black Entrepreneur: Wande’s Story
As a nonprofit co-founder, Wande is confronting funding inequities head-on while building an organization that puts community and workers first.
The Cost of Community Care for Black Women Leaders
Black women are driving financial stability in their communities, but face chronic underfunding and burnout. What will it take to sustain their leadership?
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.
2025 Financial Health Pulse® Chicago Trends Report Reveals Cook County Residents See Modest Gains in Financial Health, but Stark Regional Gaps Persist
The new report underscores geographic and demographic differences in financial well-being in the Chicago region.
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.
2025 FinHealth Spend Report Shows the Price of Participation in America’s Financial System Hit $455 Billion in 2024, with Financially Vulnerable Bearing the Heaviest Burden
Fees and interest surged by nearly $100B over two years as student loans resumed and credit card debt grew, costing Financially Vulnerable households 17 times more of their income than Financially Healthy households.
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.
Financial Health Pulse 2025: Financial Health Challenges Persist, Student Debt and Insurance Raise New Alarms
Lower-income, lower-wealth households saw modest gains in savings and debt manageability, while concerns rise over insurance adequacy and impacts from resumed student loan repayment.
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.
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?
Building with Wisdom: Why Centering Black Elders Is Key to Financial Innovation
In an exclusive post-EMERGE Q&A, Raymond A. Jetson of Aging While Black shares how honoring Black elders can transform financial futures across America.
Building Wealth: Empowering Black Small Business Owners Through Investing
A new program shows promise for increasing stock market participation and investing confidence among Black entrepreneurs.
New Frontiers in Financial Inclusion
Opportunities revealed in the FDIC’s latest survey could spark fresh ways for banks to reach “last-mile customers”.
Community Perspectives: Aging as a Force for Community Transformation
A social enterprise innovator, former Louisiana state legislator, and proud Black elder advocate shares compelling lessons on the importance of elder representation for community transformation.
Breaking New Ground: Visionary Women Advancing Financial Health for All
We’re celebrating Women's History Month by honoring three trailblazing women instrumental in advancing the financial health movement over the past two decades – and they’re not done yet.
Financial Solutions Lab: Creating Next-Gen Tools To Advance FinHealth
The Financial Solutions Lab ushered in a new era of fintech solutions to tackle persistent gaps in consumer financial health.
Black History Month Q&A: TransUnion’s Tracie Anderson on Financial Health
TransUnion Principal, Economic Inclusion Strategy for U.S. Markets Tracie Anderson has spent her career breaking barriers to financial health for marginalized communities. In this special Black History Month Q&A, she shares what she’s learned – and the interventions she sees as critical to advancing financial inclusion today.
Closing the Racial Wealth Gap With Financial Asset Ownership
A new program aims to equip Black students with the tools and confidence to participate in the stock market.
What We Can Learn About Wealth Disparities in a Moment of Unprecedented Intergenerational Wealth Transfer
Article #3 in the Series | In the decades ahead, the country is on the precipice of a significant shift in wealth and assets between generations as America’s population ages.
Yemi Rose | DEI, Financial Health, and the Future of Work
DEI in the workplace has evolved dramatically over the last few years. As a new administration takes office, how can employers navigate the changing landscape and make sure they’re doing right by their workers? Yemi Rose, founder and CEO of financial wellness platform OfColor, sits down with Financial Health Network Vice President Matt Bahl to discuss his own journey as a DEI leader and strategies to prepare for what’s next. Don’t miss their conversation on the final episode of our EMERGE Everywhere Workplace mini-series.
Pulse Points: Disparities in Credit Scores and Length of Credit History
How is credit history related to race and ethnicity, and what steps can financial service providers take to address credit health inequities?
Chime: Advancing FinHealth for All Through Innovative Banking Services
Chime is transforming banking with accessible, low-cost financial services, enabling more people to build credit, tap into liquidity, and achieve financial health.
How Can Employers Help Increase Access to Affordable Housing?
Three takeaways from our recent Member-exclusive Executive Roundtable on how organizations can help employees access affordable housing.
Lessons From FinX: The Challenges of Financially Vulnerable Consumers
The lessons learned and insights gained from FinX, a unique workshop that illuminates the challenges faced by financially vulnerable consumers.
Pulse Points Summer 2024: The Financial Health of Foreign-Born Consumers
How does the financial health of foreign-born consumers compare with those born in the U.S., and how can we set immigrants up for financial success?
Financial Health Frontiers: Shaping the Future of Financial Health
Which trends will shape financial health the most over the next generation – and how can we harness them to help more people achieve financial security?
Michael McAfee | Rewiring Corporate America To Advance Racial Equity
In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, many large companies made commitments to advance equity. Nearly four years later, those commitments have largely faded away – despite the strong link between equity and business outcomes, innovation, and long-term value creation. How can we urge corporate America to make racial and economic equity a foundational part of their businesses, so that all of us can prosper? Listen to Jennifer’s conversation with Michael McAfee, President and CEO of PolicyLink, about the pivotal role of corporations in promoting inclusion and key steps for embedding equity into business standards.
“The Barber of Little Rock” and One Man’s Quest to Close the Racial Wealth Gap
Join Arlo Washington for a screening of ‘The Barber of Little Rock,’ an Oscar-nominated documentary short detailing his journey from Little Rock, Arkansas, barber to founder of a visionary bank called People Trust, then listen in on a fireside chat with Arlo about closing the racial wealth gap.