I’ve spent a month unpacking what I mean by crisis-informed financial literacy. Now I want to hear from you. If […]
The Bandwidth Tax
Mullainathan and Shafir (2013), in their research on scarcity, found something that reframed how I think about crisis-time decision-making: scarcity […]
Measuring the Right Thing
The clearest proof I have that crisis-informed financial literacy is a genuinely different subject, not just a softer version of […]
The 73%, Revisited
Two numbers have anchored a lot of what I’ve written this month. Seventy-three percent of our own residents once told […]
Janet, One Month Later
A month ago I introduced you to Janet, a resident who scored in the 98th percentile on a numeracy-based financial […]
Should I Address This?
Picture the scenario: a participant in a financial literacy workshop asks the facilitator about investing. Should the facilitator answer that […]
Five Domains, Not One Curriculum
Most financial literacy curricula are built as if there’s one competency to teach. In crisis contexts, there are at least […]
I Need Something I Can Reference
During fieldwork, a case manager said something that’s stuck with me: “I need something I can reference when I’m trying […]
Redundant, and Ignored Anyway
Tout (1997) made an argument I think about often: the phrase “critical numeracy” shouldn’t need to exist. Real numeracy, properly […]
The Debt That Was Never a Choice
Some of the residents who come through Fresh Start Housing arrive already carrying debt they never agreed to. Pogrebin et […]