Media Coverage
Laura Beamer speaks to the Texas Standard about the student debt crisis
The conversation draws on JFI's Millennial Student Debt project
Millennial Student Debt maps win Dignity+Debt data visualization contest
Francis Tseng's maps show the geography of student debt across the United States
Business Insider, The American Prospect, Open Campus, Courier cover JFI’s Millennial Student Debt project
JFI's ongoing series on the higher education landscape provides evidence for the benefits of student debt cancellation
Yahoo! Finance features latest Millennial Student Debt report
Senior fellow Marshall Steinbaum's report on the growing burden of student debt forms part of the national conversation on debt...
The Compton Pledge features in multiple nationwide media outlets
JFI's partnership guaranteed income initiative with Mayor Aja Brown and Fund for Guaranteed Income has captured attention for its scale...
L.A. Times breaks news on ‘The Compton Pledge,’ new guaranteed income initiative of JFI & partners
The largest city-based guaranteed income initiative in the United States, launching this year
Op-ed in The Hill from JFI experts on ‘the shape of guaranteed income’
NYU Professor Jonathan Morduch and JFI Director of Research Sidhya Balakrishnan co-authored a piece on the potential for guaranteed income...
Urban policy magazine discusses JFI’s guaranteed income pilots
City Monitor, a new magazine of urban policy experts and journalists, spoke with JFI's Stephen Nuñez about the evidence...
Yahoo! Finance piece highlights JFI findings on rising student debt burdens
The article discussed Senators Warren and Schumer's resolution for up to $50,000 in federal debt forgiveness amid disproportionate levels of student...
The Balance features JFI guaranteed income expertise
The personal finance site featured JFI's Halah Ahmad on rising interest in cash transfers since the onset of the pandemic
JFI’s Stephen Nuñez speaks with Salon about guaranteed income
Salon's Matthew Rozsa spoke with JFI about models of basic and guaranteed income for the US
JFI speaks with Vox on new Mayors for Guaranteed Income Initiative
As multiple mayors across the US call for guaranteed income pilots, JFI continues to guide pilots in Newark and elsewhere...
Time Magazine covers Robert Smith’s Student Freedom Initiative in partnership with JFI
The multi-billion dollar non-profit fund creates alternative financing options at HBCUs, with JFI partnering on program design, analytics, & research
AméricaEconomía features JFI’s basic income research in Brazil
Lead Researcher in Guaranteed Income, Stephen Nuñez, and Paul Katz, VP of Special Projects spoke about basic income in...
JFI’s Paul Katz provides expertise on UBI for Latin America Advisor
JFI VP for Special Projects Paul Katz, who leads the qualitative study of our work on Maricá, Brazil's basic income...
Phenomenal World analysis of class politics in dollar hegemony features in Bloomberg Markets Odd Lots podcast
Yakov Feygin and Dominik Leusder's widely-read Phenomenal World analysis of "The Class Politics of the Dollar System" was featured for...
JFI researchers publish CARES Act op-ed in The Hill
JFI Lead Researcher on Guaranteed Income, Stephen Nuñez, and Halah Ahmad, PR and Policy Communications Lead, wrote about key...
Stanford Basic Income Lab interviews JFI’s Stephen Nuñez
Sarah Berger Gonzalez of Stanford BIL interviewed Steve Nuñez alongside Madeline Neighly and Sarah Stripp
Boston Review op-ed: JFI researchers on “What a Solidarity Economy Looks Like”
Paul Katz, JFI Fellow in Guaranteed Income, and our partner Leandro Ferreira wrote about the rapid and substantial COVID-19 response...
Yahoo! Finance features JFI higher ed access research
Laura Beamer, Lead Researcher on Higher Ed Finance, speaks with Yahoo! Finance on the findings of our first report on...
USA Today covers JFI “Geography of Higher Ed” research
JFI Project Lead on Higher Ed, Laura Beamer, comments on higher education desserts and our newest research findings in USA...
BBC Brazil features JFI basic income research in Maricá
An in-depth look at the Maricá basic income policy & its early effects, implications.
Business Insider features JFI research
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa's cash transfer experiment and the larger picture of UBI research from JFI CEO Michael Stynes
Education Dive features JFI higher ed access research
More coverage of our recently-released research on "The Geography of Higher Ed" by Education Dive, with commentary on free-college proposals,...