Convening on Measuring U.S. Household Essential Wealth
September 24, 2025
9:00 a.m. − 5:00 p.m.
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
This convening sought to lay the foundation for creating empirical measurements of how much wealth is “essential” for a U.S. family to thrive—defined as being able to benefit from functions of wealth, such as resilience to economic shocks and the capacity to invest in mobility and opportunity.
Event Highlights:
- Explored potential strategic and methodological approaches to creating new metrics for essential wealth.
- Identified how key parties might use the metrics to better understand how families benefit from having this essential amount of wealth and guide their organizations’ efforts to support wealth building.
- Heard from leaders in communities that experience financial hardship about their perspectives on wealth, their financial goals, and what they need to thrive.
- Surfaced potential solutions to the technical challenges involved in developing essential wealth metrics.
This was an invitation-only event.
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