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Description: The steep recession which was triggered by the bursting of Florida’s housing “bubble, “Also had deeper roots. For decades wage growth has not kept up with increasing productivity. Expanding consumer debt and widening income inequality occurred even during the good times. Florida needs a sustainable economy over the long term, and that will require more than restarting the housing market. Job growth must provide middleclass incomes, and prosperity must be broadly shared. The current downturn is an opportunity to rethink Florida’s economic strategy and work on creating a much more diversified and vibrant economy and improving our ability to ride out future downturns. This report examines recent job loss in Florida and argues for investment in three key areas, which will produce short, medium, and long-term growth of middle class jobs for Florida, which will put our economy on a more stable footing.
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Date: Jun-09
Identifier: FIDC006749
Description: In March 2009 the FIU chapter of the United Faculty of Florida commissioned RISEP to produce a report investigating the budgetary and personnel changes in the university in the past few years at Florida International University. In April that report was concluded and published; it formed the basis of a teach-in at the university. The FIU administration disputed the results of that report and insisted that its data showing a massive transfer of salaries and personnel from faculty toward administration were faulty. Since the data used for the report came directly from the FIU administration, the claims of faulty data were a puzzle to the researchers. For the original report, the administration had claimed that they could not provide names to attach to the positions and salary data they supplied. After disputing our data (which was in fact their data, as supplied to us), they did supply names for each position with accompanying salary in the database. This revealed that the original database they had given us contained a number of duplications and even occasional triplications in the administrative category, thus leading to an over count of the number of administrators and administrative salaries. Thus, the administration has now given us a new database, which has been adjusted to eliminate duplications and to make a few other minor modifications to the data, which the administration again found with their re-analysis. We have looked at the new database, and conclude that all of our conclusions still hold, even with the adjusted data. The only thing that has changed a bit is the magnitude of the resource shift toward administration and away from faculty. But the trend is still very apparent, and is still enormous. The following report will re-analyze the data using the latest data provided us by the FIU administration. We stand 100% behind our previous report, given the data we were supplied at that time. But the more complete data now available to us and endorsed by the FIU administration shows essentially the same results as our previous analysis, albeit with a slightly less magnitude. The original report is contained as Appendix A in this report. Analysis with the updated data is contained in the body of the report prior to the appendix. For those who want to learn only the most essential numbers indicating trends without wading through all the data, the following are the essence of our findings from the numbers that are now agreed upon by the FIU administration.
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Date: Jun-09
Identifier: FIDC006668
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