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Florida Policy Institute
Lake Mary, Florida ·The Florida Policy Institute is an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan organization dedicated to promoting widespread prosperity through timely, thoughtful and objective analysis of state policy issues affecting economic opportunity. The […]
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Criminal Fines and Fees: An Age-Old Tool That Has Enslaved, Oppressed, and Disenfranchised Black Floridians
- April 27, 2022
- Florida Policy Institute
- Tachana Joseph-Marc
To chart an equitable course forward for all Floridians, we must first understand the journey that brought us to where we are today. The following publication is the third in […]
Unemployment Insurance Bills to Watch in 2021
- April 2, 2021
- Florida Policy Institute
- Cindy Huddleston
The pandemic has revealed Florida’s Unemployment Insurance program (called Reemployment Assistance (RA)) to be replete with outdated policies and procedures that create unnecessary barriers, making it difficult for workers to […]
Florida Policymakers Need to Reassess How the Minimum Wage is Enforced
- March 4, 2021
- Florida Policy Institute
- Alexis Davis, Daniel J. Galvin, Janice Fine, and Jenn Round
In November 2020, Floridians made the historic decision to move an estimated 2.5 million Floridians closer to a living wage with the passage of Amendment 2. The state minimum wage […]
A Minimum Wage Boost Would Improve Equity for 2.5 Million Floridians and Bolster the State’s Post-Pandemic Recovery
- September 4, 2020
- Florida Policy Institute
- Alexis Davis
On November 3, voters will have the opportunity to decide whether 2.5 million working Floridians receive a wage increase: Amendment 2 seeks to gradually increase the state minimum wage to […]
The State of Working Florida 2017
The 14th edition of State of Working Florida finds that, while Florida’s economic and employment levels have recovered from the Great Recession, levels of economic security have not improved. The […]
When Matters are Settled but Not Resolved: Misclassification in the Rideshare Sector
FIU’s Research Institute on Social and Economic Policy (RISEP) is excited to co-release, with UCLA’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, a new research report on the so-called “gig […]
High Road WIOA: Building Higher Job Quality into Workforce Development
- December 17, 2015
- Keystone Research Center
- Stephen Herzenberg
In response to the federal Workforce Investment and Opportunity Act (WIOA), most states are now in the latter stages of developing federally required plans and policies for operating their systems […]
Left Out Working Women of Florida
Florida’s female workforce earned an average annual salary of $11,260 below their male counterparts in 2013, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics1. Five decades after the […]