The report finds that many of Florida’s workforce fall outside of federal labor laws; thus, other enforcement mechanisms such as Miami Dade’s Wage Theft Ordinance are needed to ensure that employees, communities, and local governments will not miss out on millions of stolen wages that are owed to them, and that [...]
This report focuses on how workers are faring in Florida’s economy, and the overriding theme in 2011 is the stark contrasts in the impact of the recession on different groups of workers. While higher educated workers in higher paying jobs appear to be doing fairly well and even gaining ground in wages, lower educated workers, [...]
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Two years after the official end of the recession, Florida still has a jobs deficit of nearly 981,000 jobs, and some groups of workers are faring far worse than others in the economy, according to the annual State of Working Florida report to be released on Sunday by the Research Institute on Social and Economic [...]
RISEP’s new analysis of Florida’s unemployment compensation system, co-released by Florida New Majority and the National Employment Law Project, shows that unemployment benefits are a key stimulus to Florida’s economy, putting over $9 billion into the state’s economy since the start of the recession. But Florida ranks low among states on key measures of how well benefits reach [...]
Miami Herald
By Nirvi Shah
November 16, 2010
A new report shows that wage theft in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties occurs not only in low-wage industries but also in professional and higher salary jobs, including those in the legal profession, at architecture and accounting firms, public and private schools and in medical fields.
The report entitled Wage Theft [...]
MIAMI (CBS4) – When mobile home park owners sell or close a park, more than half of its residents have nowhere else to go and could potentially end up homeless, according to a study released by Florida International University Thursday… (read more)
With healthcare at the forefront of the largest U.S. policy debate in two decades, researchers from the Research Institute on Social and Economic Policy at Florida International University were given unprecedented access to more than four hundred frontline healthcare workers to determine what impact the union is having on the healthcare industry, the workers’ jobs [...]
Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen presented the Portrait of Women’s Economic Security in Greater Miami to the House floor on July 14.
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MIAMI – On June 3, Florida International University’s Research Institute on Social and Economic Policy released its latest report on the state of the economy for Florida’s workers, Securing Florida’s Future: Job loss in the recession and job creation for a sustainable economy. The report examines the industries and demographic groups affected by job loss [...]
Article in The Miami Herald, section South Dade 5.