Jennifer Tescher is president and CEO of the Financial Health Network, which she founded in 2004 as the Center for Financial Services Innovation. A national expert on financial health, Tescher is a regular contributing writer to Forbes on the intersection of financial health and innovation. She is frequently quoted in the national and financial press, including The New York Times, American Public Media’s “Marketplace,” and The Washington Post, and has had major speaking engagements across a spectrum of industry and policy convenings. Tescher is a board member of Elevate Energy, an advisory council member of Accion’s Center for Financial Inclusion, and a member of Bank of America’s National Consumer Advisory Council.
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About 40 percent of GDP in the United States is spent on either the health or financial industries, yet workers themselves are in increasingly dire health and financial strait...