WPR's Karen Faster interviewed Peggy Olive for a series on Literacy in Wisconsin. Olive weighs in on the need for financial capability at all income levels. "Everybody needs to know about saving money," said Peggy Olive, a family financial capability outreach specialist with the University of Wisconsin-Extension. "Plenty of people in poverty have savings goals. … Continue reading Peggy Olive Shares Insights on Financial Capability in WPR’s Literacy in Wisconsin Series
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J. Michael Collins Op-Ed “One Paycheck Away From Poverty” published in The Hill
Innovations around emergency savings to help build the liquid resources of families on the cusp of poverty are imperative in the current climate of income and expense volatility. J. Michael Collins discusses new proposals by the Obama administration to advance this agenda and gives examples of opportunities to prevent poverty for many families in this … Continue reading J. Michael Collins Op-Ed “One Paycheck Away From Poverty” published in The Hill
J. Michael Collins, Jason Houle and Max Schmeiser awarded the 2015-2016 Health and Society Research Prize
Their winning paper, entitled "Flu and Finances: Influenza Outbreaks and Loan Defaults in US Cities, 2004-2012," was selected as the awardee of the 2015-2016 campus-wide Health and Society Research Prize sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Financial Security 