Employers are adopting resilience training for their employees at a rate faster than any other intervention in the United States.1 Resilience — the ability
to use positive mental skills
to remain psychologically steady and focused when faced with challenges or adversity —
contributes substantially to how workers deal with stress and perform at work.2, 3 Employers are developing resilience
to achieve a competitive advantage, similar
to how the military trains active duty soldiers and their
family members
to withstand challenges.4, 5
• Two recently published studies (by Addo, Houle, and Simon and Grinstein - Weiss et al.) use national survey data
to show that black students hold
substantially more debt by age 25 compared
to their white counterparts, and that disparities are evident even after controlling for
family income and wealth, indicating that differences in postsecondary and labor market experiences
contribute to the debt gap.