Workforce Financial Stability Initiative (WFSI)
Financial Security
Established in 2017, the Workforce Financial Stability Initiative (WFSI) seeks to understand how frontline employees’ work conditions and benefits affect their financial stability and to identify and test workplace innovations to improve these conditions. The WFSI grew out of the Employee Financial Wellness Programs (EFWP) Project, a multi-year effort studying the implementation and outcomes of financial wellness programs in the workplace.
Gig Work and Self-Employment
Research Agenda
SPI analyzes data from the Household Financial Survey and Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19 Survey to explore how non-traditional work relates to workers’ financial stability.
Small Businesses and COVID-19
Research Agenda
The WFSI team is conducting a survey of 350 small business owners (SBOs) in customer-facing (e.g., food services, childcare) industries which have experienced revenue decreases and missed loan payments above the national average
Job Quality and Managerial Practices
Research Agenda
The Job Quality and Managerial Practices research agenda examines how employers can redesign jobs and employment practices to improve the financial stability of their frontline workers.
Building on Benefits
Research Agenda
The Building on Benefits research agenda examines ways to improve employer benefits so these benefits promote financial stability for low- to moderate-income (LMI) workers and their families.
Employee Financial Wellness Programs
Research Agenda
The Employee Financial Wellness Programs (EFWPs) research agenda examines a new set of employer benefits and initiatives aimed at helping low- to moderate-income (LMI) workers achieve financial stability.
Principal and Co-Investigators
Daniel Auguste
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Florida Atlantic University
SPI Staff
David Rothwell
Associate Professor, Barbara E. Knudson Endowed Chair in Family Policy
Oregan State University