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25 Years In and Looking Ahead
Tax Time Is The Perfect Time To Increase The Financial Well-Being of Your Employees
Each year, employers have an impactful yet underutilized window to steward employees toward improved financial security: Tax time. This tax season, every employee—from the most junior member to your executives—will spend time reviewing their financial situation. Employees who pay taxes…
What Matters Most
As we enter 2025 I‘m torn between two very different truths. I’m confident our work at Commonwealth has never been more important, and I’m energized by our vision and plan to enable financial security and opportunity for millions of families…
Employers can improve financial security by offering emergency savings
You are demonstrating support for the entirety of your workforce by recognizing their individual financial circumstances and offering benefits that address them. As a new year approaches and employers consider additional ways to improve their culture and address ongoing issues…
Workplace Benefits: Employers’ Role in Mitigating the Financial Impacts of Climate Change on Worker Financial Security
Eighty-three percent of workers report wanting an expanded employer response to mitigate the financial impacts of climate change on U.S. workers. With relief efforts for Hurricane Helene dominating the news this fall, there was a renewed focus on the role…
Beyond Email
Thinking creatively to reach a diverse workforce with non-wired workers As part of BlackRock’s Emergency Savings Initiative (ESI), GXO and Commonwealth have partnered to support employee financial security by providing access to a high-quality emergency savings benefit and promoting emergency…
The New College Investor
A national survey by Commonwealth reveals the barriers reported by college students with low-to-moderate incomes (LMI) embarking on their investment journey and opportunities for key stakeholders to address them. Investing has long been viewed as a wealth-building tool that can…
Financial Security First
Employers are increasingly focused on strengthening the financial well-being of their workforce. While retirement remains a critical benefit, it is often unattainable for many low-and moderate-income workers, in part due to other pressing financial needs. One viable solution to this…
Building Commonwealth’s ChatGPT-Powered Chatbot
Commonwealth’s Emerging Tech for All (ETA) initiative aims to integrate the needs and aspirations of people living on low to moderate incomes (LMI) into the next generation of emerging technologies. We partner with financial organizations, fintechs, and platform providers implementing…
Tackling The Financial Impact of Climate Change on Workers
Workers are not confident that they could financially recover if extreme weather were to impact them tomorrow. Since 2022, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has been working on proposed legislation to implement guidelines for workers and heat exposure.…
Commonwealth’s Bold Vision
Earlier this year, Commonwealth set a bold four-year strategic plan to drive systemic changes in workplaces, financial services, and emerging technologies, enabling 10 million working families to build $15 billion in equitable financial security and wealth by 2027. Achieving this…