We study the signals — in search data, household balance sheets, medical bills, and rent rolls — that appear long before a crisis does.
Most financial hardship doesn't arrive as a single event. It compounds — quietly, across years — through housing pressure, medical bills, and debt that never quite closes. Our work is to make that slow accumulation measurable.
The Financial Health Barometer distills search behavior and administrative data into a weekly stress reading for all 50 states. This is the live preview — hover a state, or switch indicators below.
Figure 1Financial Health Barometer composite index, by U.S. state. Hover a state for its current reading; switch indicators above. Source: FinMango Research, 2026.
Data partnership A working relationship with Google's Health Trends team gives us privileged API access — the data engine behind the Barometer's real-time signals across all 50 states. How we use it
House briefs that read our own work so policymakers, journalists, and partners don't have to parse a repository first. Each one links to its source documents — and down to the FinMango tools it informed.
Peer-reviewed papers and technical whitepapers, plus five working papers in progress with our academic partners.
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A research agenda is really a list of honest questions — the quiet ones, the inconvenient ones, the ones the data keeps hinting at. These are the six we're chasing now.
Can search behavior predict an eviction before it's filed in court?
Does one medical event really erase a generation of savings — and for whom?
How do community banks absorb the financial aftershock of a tornado?
What does AI adoption in banking mean for the people behind the teller window?
Where does financial literacy change behavior — and where is it just theater?
When does student debt stop compounding disadvantage, if ever?
We identify the systemic barriers endangering young adults' financial health — housing, healthcare, debt, predatory lending. We diagnose root causes. We provide the evidence decision-makers need to build solutions that actually work.
Our approach & methodologyAll research on GitHub. Every methodology. Every insight. Every limitation.
WHO. World Bank. IMF. Policymakers worldwide. We provide evidence. They build solutions.
All our research is open-source and available on GitHub. Dive into our methodologies, datasets, and findings.