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

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

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

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

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

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

Kourtney Gilbert

Social Science Research Manager

David Rothwell

Associate Professor, Barbara E. Knudson Endowed Chair in Family Policy

Oregan State University

Najjuwah Walden

PhD Research Assistant

Haotian Zheng

PhD Research Assistant

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