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Rachel Schneider is a former researcher at the Financial Health Network and the Aspen Institute. She studied the financial lives of working Americans and coauthored a book on the topic: The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty.
Schneider is also the founder of Canary, a third-party employee relief platform aiming to provide companies with a way to make a greater impact on the financial lives of their employees.
With $3.25 million in funding from Capital One Ventures, Propel, Marguerite Casey Foundation, and Restive Ventures, Canary offers employees an anonymous, employer-sponsored place to request financial aid when they’re