Financial Security Program

What would it take to help individuals and families be financially stable even when their income varies?

Income volatility can affect all socioeconomic groups, but it particularly hits those with low incomes and little or no savings.

Timm Ogden is the managing director of the Financial Access Initiative, a research center based at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service.

What can we do to reduce income volatility for contingent workers and workers with changing schedules?

Bradley Hardy shares insights from his research on income volatility and race.

Ariane Hegewisch shares insights on the role of gender in income volatility.

This brief presents a framework for thinking through possible public- and private-sector solutions to the challenge of income volatility.

In poll after poll, citizens rank retirement as one of their top economic concerns.