Florida

Read JSRI’s 2009 profile of poverty and inequality in the State of Florida »

 A sample of the profile follows:

Who are Florida’s Poor?

• 721,284 are children (18.3% of kids)
• 323,085 are elders (10.4% of seniors)
• 1,326,439 are adults 18-64 (12.2 % of adults)
• 810,245 are in female-headed families (26.5% of such families)

Looked at another way:

• 1,061,497 males are poor (12.1 % males)
• 1,309,311 females are poor (14.3% of females)
• 1,581,525 whites are poor (11.3% of whites)
• 594,297 blacks are poor (22% of blacks)
• 673,138 Hispanics are poor (17.8% of Hispanics)
• 525,783 immigrants are poor (15.7% of foreign-born)

 

Fr. Fred Kammer, SJ, is the lead JSRI liaison to Florida groups, assisted by other staff as appropriate.

Particular articles of note are:

• Tomatoes, Farmworkers, and Social Justice—Kammer [JustSouth Quarterly, Summer 2010]
• U.S. resumes deportations to Haiti--Barely a year after the massive earthquake that destroyed Port-au-Prince—Weishar [JustSouth E-Newsletter, January 2011]

Related organizations

• Catholic Charities Central Florida
• Catholic Charities of Miami
• Catholic Charities of Northwest Florida
• Catholic Charities of Palm Beach
• Catholic Charities of St. Augustine
• Catholic Charities of Venice
• Catholic Charities of St. Petersburg
• Collins Center for Public Policy Inc.
• Florida Catholic Conference
• Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy
• Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center
• Florida Immigrant Coalition
• Florida Impact
• Florida Justice Institute—Miami
• Florida Legal Services
• Florida TaxWatch
• Legislature Economic and Demographic Research
• University of Miami School of Law - Center for Hispanic and Caribbean Legal Studies
• My Florida (state portal)
• Online Sunshine
• Research Institute on Social and Economic Policy (RISEP)—Florida International University
• St. Thomas University Center for Justice & Peace
• United Way of Florida (Legislative Link)

 

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