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Economic Mobility
Since 2017

Financial health should be a right. So we build it.

Affordability is mobility. We use data and technology to remove the barriers holding back young adults and vulnerable communities.

10M+
Lives reached
100K+
Educated
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Live data · updated daily

The crisis isn't coming. It's here.

Right now, national financial anxiety sits at 139. Tracking now.

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Financial Anxiety
139
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Food Insecurity
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Housing Stress
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Affordability
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LOW <90
MODERATE 90–120
ELEVATED 120–150
HIGH >150
63%
of Americans can't cover a $500 emergency expense
CNBC ↗
31%
of Americans still believe the American Dream holds true
WSJ / NORC ↗
56%
of young adults report financial stress impacting mental health
Newport Institute ↗

You can't budget your way out of a broken system.

How we work

We don't just study problems. We fix them.

Prove

Research

We find the barriers blocking economic mobility: housing, healthcare, debt, predatory lending. Our work with Google Health and university partners builds the evidence policymakers need to act.

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Equip

Education

We reach students before the student loans, before the credit cards, before the system gets them. Our programs run from suburban districts to inner-city schools.

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Push

Advocacy

Education alone isn't enough. Our global ambassador network pushes for policy change on the barriers no budgeting advice can fix.

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From the field

We build for young adults. Here are a few.

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The Barrier Breakers 2026 cohort seated on the grand staircase at Kent State University
Barrier Breakers · Kent State University01
Students holding the FinMango flag at a financial health competition
Financial Health Competition02
The FinMango team holding the FinMango flag
Team FinMango03
Peer-reviewed

Published in Nature. Used worldwide.

Our peer-reviewed partnership with Google Health produced open-source datasets now used by research institutions, governments, and global health organizations — the evidence base decision-makers need to build equitable financial and health systems.

22K+
Locations tracked
190+
Countries covered
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Source on GitHub
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Build the ladder, not just the safety net.

Economic mobility shouldn't depend on luck or your zip code. Help us build a system that doesn't fail people.

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Everything we build is open source and free — the Housing Affordability and Family Planning calculators, the Financial Health Barometer, and all our code on GitHub.