As gasoline prices reach all-time peaks, how are Americans adjusting their buying patterns to cope? Analysis of Financial Health Pulse® survey and transactional data suggests that increasing gas costs and consumers’ financial health status may affect how often they refuel and how much they spend per trip to the pump.
How might a platform resource catalyze private financial sector action on worldwide financial health?
Employees across industries are managing a wide range of financial health needs, and they are increasingly looking to their employer for support. As employers consider which financial guidance benefits to offer, they must consider a range of factors – including the makeup of their workforce, how the guidance is delivered, and cost structures – in order to identify the most high-impact solutions for their employees.
Top-line finding shows that as gas prices increased in 2022, overall consumption decreased and that the financially unhealthy often made smaller, more frequent purchases to fill up their tanks.
As gasoline prices reach all-time peaks, how are Americans adjusting their buying patterns to cope? Analysis of Financial Health Pulse® survey and transactional data suggests that increasing gas costs and consumers’ financial health status may affect how often they refuel and how much they spend per trip to the pump.
Dr. Bechara Choucair grew up in Beirut in the midst of the Lebanese Civil War, raised by parents that created stability in an otherwise unstable time. What he learned then informs his current work as Senior Vice President and Chief Health Officer for Kaiser Permanente: Stable environments create better, more equitable outcomes. In this episode, Dr. Choucair explains how health systems can promote health by fighting back against financial insecurity, which he sees as the next great health crisis.
The study showed BNPL services inspired consumers to spend beyond their means, and frequent users displayed larger declines in financial health, according to the study.
The results of a recent National Credit Union Foundation (the Foundation) research grant are in—and they’re exciting.
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