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Make Progress Over Perfect

Achieving economic security depends on many things:

• A good education and needed job skills
• A steady job with good wages and benefits
• Wages that provide for food, housing, transportation, and child care
• Protecting earned income through health, auto, and home insurance
• Saving for emergencies and retirement

All of these are crucial to economic security, but have you ever thought about how crucial economic security is to better health? It turns out there is a very strong link.

Unemployment is associated with a 20-30% mortality risk. 
– OPTUM

People who can achieve some level of economic security have better health outcomes than those who don’t. Health issues such as heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and other chronic diseases are less common among those with good-paying jobs who can afford quality housing, transportation, and child care.

This is why programs such as IMPACT are critical to the Hoosiers we serve.

Learn more about how income and economic security impacts health