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		Financial Stability Council Releases Far-Reaching Proposals

If you have read the local newspapers of late or listened to your radio, perhaps you are familiar with United Way’s Financial Stability Council, a group of 130 top-level business, government, and community leaders.

Over the past six months, the Financial Stability Council has met to address some of our state’s most serious challenges. Indeed, the financial challenges we all face require innovative and far-reaching solutions and the Financial Stability Council was formed to developed a foundation for bold, new strategies to help every Utah household achieve financial security. Consider these startling facts... (Read the full article)
 
 Deborah S. Bayle
 President and CEO

IMPACT MATTERS

UW Seeks Public Input on Financial Stability Counsel Proposals
 

The challenges of financial instability are not limited to specific economic and demographic subcategories, but affect the majority of the public and our entire economy. Unfortunately, current approaches do not have sufficient reach and scale to truly solve the growing challenges of financial insecurity, especially as healthcare costs spiral out of control.

Financial Stability Council

To address financial instability at its core, United Way of Salt Lake, (UWSL), in partnership with United Way of Northern Utah, United Way of Utah County, Salt Lake Chamber, and the office of the Governor, convened a Financial Stability Council last April to lead the development of integrated solutions that have the potential to influence every Utahn in the areas of income, assets, health care, housing and financial literacy. The Council’s overall objective was to develop proposals that have the potential to impact the broadest possible segment of the population. Over the past six months working committees within the Council developed draft proposals for each of the five components of financial stability. The proposals were released to the public last week. Following are the Council’s stated objectives to be achieved by each the proposals...(Read the full article)