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Saving Money as a Financial Vaccine: BlackRock Finds Consumer Savings Drain and Etsy Sellers Not Saving Much

Health Populi

BlackRock partners in the ESI with the Financial Health Network, CommonWealth, the Center for Advanced Hindsight Common Cents Lab, along with UPS, Mastercard, Etsy (whose sellers were the subject of an ESI white paper on the pandemic and gig workers’ financial health), Brightside, Acorns, and Arizona State University.

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Breaking the Cycle of Financial Toxicity

GlobalMed

at least, we now expect that extensive medical treatment – whether that’s chemotherapy, ongoing dialysis visits or surgery to repair a broken femur – may involve significant medical bills. Hospital stays, outpatient visits, tests and medications can all add up, even when patients have health insurance. In the U.S.