"Matt Fellowes" is the Founder and CEO of Hellowallet/HelloWallet, a Washington-DC based SaaS enterprise company that helps employers manage and improve their human capital outcomes and total reward programs. It is a behavioral technology company that uses behavioral economics to improve worker decisions. Fellowes founded HelloWallet on the premise that the company would have a strong social mission: for every five subscriptions the company sells, it gives one to a person or family in need.

Fellowes is a frequent contributor to consumer finance policy and benefit debates. In March 2013, he was invited to testify before the United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, to address what the government could do to keep more money in the retirement system in America. He has previously presented testimony at the United States Department of the Treasury, White House, United States Congress, and a wide range of media, including The Wall Street Journal The Washington Post, and PBS.

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The city is certainly broke and it doesn't have the citizens today or the businesses to afford to rebuild on its own schools and services like transportation.

We're six months now after the storm, and there are still large swaths of [New Orleans] that look like they did a month after the storm. It's just inexcusable.

I think that (auto) dealers prey on everybody. It's just that low- income folks are armed with less information.

It's very hard to get access to those trailers, and very few people want to hook them up in their driveway and live next to the shell of their house.

The French Quarter and Uptown, you see life basically as it was before the storm. It's eerie, because life really is normal in those neighborhoods and then you cross over the Industrial Canal and enter the lower Ninth Ward or eastern New Orleans, and it looks like a bomb just went off yesterday.

There needs to be a vision at the federal level ? a vision for what the city of New Orleans is going to look like and what's going to happen to the 600,000 households that have been displaced.

Everyone I've talked to in the banking and insurance community says that will be a signal that the market can act upon.

The idea of providing $5,000 to evacuees for job training, education and for childcare expenses during their job search is exactly the type of program that would be successful in employing the 7.5 million people unemployed every day in this country.