Income Volatility: A Primer
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Topic: Financial well-being
Publisher: The Aspen Institute
Location: United States
Format: Brief
Content Type: Research
Publication Date: May 31, 2016
Topic: Financial well-being
Publisher: The Aspen Institute
Location: United States
Format: Brief
Content Type: Research
Publication Date: May 31, 2016
Income volatility is an emerging, critical issue for understanding financial security today.
American households seem to be facing increased instability and unpredictability in
their financial lives. Despite the efforts of scores of researchers, there is no consensus
on the extent of volatility and how it affects individual well-being, especially among
vulnerable low- and moderate-income populations. For that reason, the Aspen Institute
Financial Security Program (FSP) is devoting the inaugural year of its new knowledgesynthesis
initiative, the Expanding Prosperity Impact Collaborative (EPIC), to income
volatility.
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