In a recent article published in Frontiers in Public Health, CSDE Affiliate Kris Pui Kwan Ma (Family Medicine) and her colleagues examined how financial concerns affected psychological distress among Asian American adults, and whether benefit finding (a cognitive appraisal and behavioral adaptation process) and received pay (i.e., work for pay/profits or receive financial assistance) moderated this relationship. Using survey data from the 2021 Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander COVID-19 Needs Assessment Project, the authors found that financial concerns were associated with greater psychological distress. While higher levels of benefit finding were independently linked to lower distress, benefit finding alone did not buffer the effect of financial concerns. Instead , Asian Americans who reported higher benefit finding and received pay were most protected from psychological distress when facing financial hardships, pointing to the combined importance of adaptive coping and economic support, when considering the significant and disproportionate financial insecurity that exacerbated and persisted in Asian Americans with limited English proficiency during the COVID-19 pandemic.