Taylor C. Nelms

... challenges with insurance and student debt - amidst longstanding entrenchment of disparities across financial health indicators - threaten to undermine the very small progress we saw in the form of a modest reduction in the share of households we classify as financially vulnerable.

The big news professionally is that the Financial Health Network's annual tentpole research report is out!

Every year, the US Financial Health Pulse takes the temperature of household finances across the country. finhealthnetwork.org/research/fin...

In 2025, we find ...

We're going to reclaim liberalism and forge a collective path to prosperity! Our guiding lights will be Amartya Sen, John Locke, and MLK!

And look, we're just asking questions, but is giving money to poor people really the right thing to do????

The Argument launched what, yesterday, and the first thing they publish is a hit piece on basic income/cash transfers research?! A little perspective, people, good gracious.

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Corn stalks in a raised garden bed

Pumpkin plants spreading out of a bed over a lawn and up a chain-link fence

Corn is coming along. Pumpkins are getting out of control.

Uncertainty, Trust, Resilience, Freedom: 4 Words for the Present and Future of Financial Health - Financial Health Network Following his first EMERGE experience, Taylor C. Nelms – Vice President of Research & Insights at the Financial Health Network – reflects on the stories and themes that stood out most.

Link to the full blogpost: finhealthnetwork.org/uncertainty-...

I wrote this for an industry and nonprofit/philanthropic audience so pretty high-level. But I think it's useful to think about what are the positive (not as in optimistic, necessarily) framings that are compelling in this "moment of uncertainty."

3. Freedom -- personal and shared -- is not possible without financial security and economic prosperity. Financial health for all frees us from the tyrannies of scarcity and circumstance.

2. Resilience is about how we support each other in preparing for crisis and responding to it. Resilience, we might say, is the practical side of hope.

1. Trust is the bedrock of belonging, securing confidence in one another as much as in our institutions. But is it any wonder that in the face of crisis, confusion, and conspiratorialism, that distrust and mistrust are on the rise?

In professional settings, instead of stating the obvious, everyone keeps talking about "uncertainty." But we need better, clearer, more substantive concepts to orient our work, especially as researchers. I offer up 3 alternatives to "uncertainty."

I've been very quiet on here and may remain so. But I have a new gig leading research for the Financial Health Network, an independent, national nonprofit think tank focused on people's financial well-being.

I wrote brief reflections on the future of thinking about financial health. The takeaway?

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If I had the time, I'd write something about this: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/b...

Maybe @jcultecon.bsky.social can help ...

Very important to remember that almost all bosses manage via Freudian projection.

Everybody's heard of *My Teacher Is an Alien* but did you know there are count em three sequels in a series that becomes an increasingly sophisticated secular theodicy?

Bruce Coville man, underrated hero.

Somehow not sure we've made enough of the fact that the "government efficiency" initiative looking for spare change by shutting down the fight against cancer is being let by the richest human being in modern history.

Poirot/Batman crossover WHEN

Kids are going to be SO prepared for a life of orangutan hunting.

"... Yet even once one had glimpsed behind the veil which separates people, as she had -- how hard it proves to keep the lives of others in mind! Everything conspires against it. Life itself."

Zadie Smith, *The Fraud*

"We mistake each other. Our whole social arrangement a series of mistakes and compromises. Shorthand for a mystery too large to be seen. ..."

Life-size replica of a Olmec head statue in stone, dropped on a blue Tesla, crushing it

Chavis Mármol, untitled destruction project (Neo-Tameme series)

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Showing photos of magnapinna squid: "And this one is next to an oil rig."

The 4yo: "Can I see a picture of an oil rig?"

Shows him.

"Can I see a picture of an oil rig on FIRE?"

Journal of Cultural Economy Volume 18, Issue 1 of Journal of Cultural Economy

18(1) is OUT and it is a monster www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/1... Featuring contribs from @jessaloomis.bsky.social & @dcockayne.bsky.social; @stevethreadgold.bsky.social et al; many more we can't tag

Know what's amazing though? It's freaking COLD but the sun is shining. There's not a cloud in the sky. Makes all the difference in the world. Wisconsin is underrated when it comes to sunshine.

-13, feels like -33 ... pretty chilly out there

Nose hair freezing season is back.

Pet theory of mine that has no empirical backing afaik: the car dealership is the most powerful reactionary political force in the country.

Impressionism: Le Quiz! It’s been 150 years since Monet and the Impressionists shocked Paris with their rebellious Société Anonyme show. How well do you know those once-revolutionary smudges?

This is one of the funniest things I've seen Times do.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...