PayActivA Place to Call Home: How Much Can Workers Bear to Lose?A group of students sharing a Cleveland apartment had a surprise last week when the sixty-year-old cashier from the dry-cleaning shop next…Jul 17, 2020Jul 17, 2020
PayActivLove Costs, and We Deserve to Afford ItIt was a hot and humid Texas night, and I’d just walked to the motel where I’d been living for a few weeks since I’d lost my apartment…Jun 25, 2020Jun 25, 2020
PayActivWaiting Is Now a Luxury: Financial Help on the Front LineLauren logs into the grocery store website from her phone, watching as the latest flyer loads. She scrolls through brightly colored…Jun 19, 2020Jun 19, 2020
PayActivThe Lucky Ones: Every Worker Deserves On-Demand PayThe Washington Post calls millennials the “unluckiest generation.”[1]Jun 17, 2020Jun 17, 2020
PayActivBrokenness“April is the cruellest month,” writes modernist poet T. S. Eliot, and as we make our isolated stroll through this April’s long days, I…Jun 12, 2020Jun 12, 2020
PayActivPrice of LossWhen John sat down to call funeral homes, he was thinking of his sister Patty, who had been a vibrant fifty-year-old just five days…Jun 9, 2020Jun 9, 2020
PayActivEvery Worker Should Be an Essential WorkerRuby and Serena loved playing tennis together. But ever since COVID-19 had taken hold, they’d been quarantined separately and had to…Jun 5, 2020Jun 5, 2020
PayActivThe Game of Life: Can you Make it through a Month?Thursday, seven a.m.Jan 16, 2020Jan 16, 2020
PayActivFinancial Stress: The Ripple EffectEarly this morning, I start the car so the defrost has time to melt some of the ice on our windshield. It’s winter in our hometown, and…Dec 23, 2019Dec 23, 2019
PayActivWhy I joined PayActivI am excited to join the Advisory Board of PayActiv. This journey, however, was first embarked upon five years ago.May 30, 2019May 30, 2019