... challenges with insurance and student debt - amidst longstanding entrenchment of disparities across financial health indicators - threaten to undermine the very small progress we saw in the form of a modest reduction in the share of households we classify as financially vulnerable.

We're going to reclaim liberalism and forge a collective path to prosperity! Our guiding lights will be Amartya Sen, John Locke, and MLK!

And look, we're just asking questions, but is giving money to poor people really the right thing to do????

Here's her website: www.leahevanstextiles.com

Link to the full blogpost: finhealthnetwork.org/uncertainty-...

I wrote this for an industry and nonprofit/philanthropic audience so pretty high-level. But I think it's useful to think about what are the positive (not as in optimistic, necessarily) framings that are compelling in this "moment of uncertainty."

3. Freedom -- personal and shared -- is not possible without financial security and economic prosperity. Financial health for all frees us from the tyrannies of scarcity and circumstance.

2. Resilience is about how we support each other in preparing for crisis and responding to it. Resilience, we might say, is the practical side of hope.

1. Trust is the bedrock of belonging, securing confidence in one another as much as in our institutions. But is it any wonder that in the face of crisis, confusion, and conspiratorialism, that distrust and mistrust are on the rise?

In professional settings, instead of stating the obvious, everyone keeps talking about "uncertainty." But we need better, clearer, more substantive concepts to orient our work, especially as researchers. I offer up 3 alternatives to "uncertainty."

"... Yet even once one had glimpsed behind the veil which separates people, as she had -- how hard it proves to keep the lives of others in mind! Everything conspires against it. Life itself."

Zadie Smith, *The Fraud*