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URL:https://debtcollective.org/event/medicalizing-inequality/
SUMMARY:Medicalizing Inequity: The Risks of Financial Wellness for Workers
DESCRIPTION:\nJoin us in conversation with sociologist\, writer\, educator\
 , and editor\, Tamara K. Nopper to discuss her groundbreaking Data &amp\; 
 Society&nbsp\;report&nbsp\;on the alarming risks of financial wellness.\n\
 n\n\nFinancial wellness is a particular rebranding of financial literacy t
 hat incorporates medicalized frameworks and practices appropriated from pu
 blic health and medicine and couples it with a purported concern about ins
 titutional inequality and predatory lending. Today\, financial wellness is
  promoted as a solution to people’s stress and money problems related to
  the debt crisis\, inflation\, credit scoring\, and racism.\n\n\n\nOur con
 versation will examine the risks of financial wellness\, including how it 
 conceptualizes disparities in power\, capital\, and status as individual o
 r community health issues instead of as organized structural inequality\, 
 how it encourages more financialization and the maintaining of a debt econ
 omy\, and how it normalizes organized abandonment––where the state pla
 ys a limited role in providing public goods and services. Participants are
  invited to ask the question: who ultimately benefits from framing financi
 al status as a matter of health?\n
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