Employment

The Washington Post : He went from jail to a $22-an-hour job. How can America get more stories like this?

This article references the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Reports : Can Low-Wage Workers Find Better Jobs?
authored by Richard Florida, Todd Gabe, and Jaison R. Abel. There is growing concern over rising economic inequality, the decline of the middle class, and a polarization of the U.S. workforce. This study examines the extent to which low-wage workers in the United States transition to better jobs, and explores the factors associated with uch a move up the job ladder.

adminNovember 15, 2018

Economy Employment

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette : Stop the corporate extortion

‘Job creators’ wring tax breaks from states at the expense of everyone else.

adminSeptember 22, 2014

Economy Employment

NY Daily News : How to create good new NYC jobs for all

Since the worst of the recession, New York City has gained back the jobs it lost and then some, surpassing its all-time high of over 4 million private-sector jobs by more than 5%. This is a resurgence to be sure, but it is a disappointingly uneven one.In short, the road to opportunity remains closed for far too many New Yorkers.

adminJuly 7, 2014

Economy Employment Profiles and Interviews Techonology

Forbes : Richard Florida: Economic Trends All Entrepreneurs Should Follow

In the following interview, Florida talks about the latest workplace and economic trends affecting business owners and employees, the impact of technology and automation, why we need a new social compact and gives his best career advice.

adminFebruary 20, 2014

Education Employment

Washington Monthly : The Living-in-the-Basement Generation

According to new research by the Social Science Research Council’s Measure of America project, for our nation’s 5.8 million “disconnected youth”—the one in seven Americans between the ages of sixteen and twenty-four who are neither working nor enrolled in school. This cohort, whose numbers were stable for a decade, surged by 800,000 after the Great Recession and includes not only children from poor and minority families but significant numbers of white, middle-class youth as well.

adminOctober 29, 2013

Employment U.S. Industry

Business Insider : There’s No Way Manufacturing Can Save America

While there is much to applaud about the recent revival of American industry, manufacturing is simply insufficient to help revive lagging industrial regions or power the job creation the nation so badly needs.

adminFebruary 18, 2013

Creative Class Employment Unemployment

Charleston Gazette : Boundaries: Class-ridden America

America is famed for its principles of equality — but renowned researcher Richard Florida says conditions have shifted so much nowadays that “the fundamental fact about America is its gaping inequality.”

adminSeptember 27, 2012

Creative Class Employment U.S. Industry

Big Think : The Rise of the Creative Service Worker Transcript from Interview

Transcript for Big Think interview with Richard Florida on the ever-widening gap between creative workers and service workers, and what businesses should do about it.

adminAugust 13, 2012

Creative Class Employment U.S. Industry

Big Think : The Rise of the Creative Service Worker

Richard Florida on the ever-widening gap between creative workers and service workers, and what businesses should do about it.

adminAugust 13, 2012

Employment Rana Florida Columns Rana Florida Columns: Work

The Huffington Post : Your Start-up Life: Should I Quit My Dead-End Job?

Thursdays at the Huffington Post, Rana Florida, CEO of The Creative Class Group, shares her conversations with successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders about how they manage their businesses, personal lives, careers, and more. She also answers readers’ questions about how they can optimize their lives.

adminMarch 30, 2012