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JFI’s Millennial Student Debt work widely covered in media
In light of a Supreme Court decision and the end of the repayment moratorium, coverage in Boston Globe, Forbes, Al-Jazeera,...
JFI’s public bank work in the Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles City Council has taken the next step towards a public bank.
Media coverage for JFI and the Berggruen Institute’s Municipal Public Banking research
NextCity covered the report's implications; the Los Angeles City Council has voted on next steps for implementation.
Press Release: Digital Complementary Currency Drives Revitalization of Brazilian City
Report and visualization offer first look at the impact of Maricá’s mumbuca, one of the most widely traded local...
Fortune covers Millennial Student Debt research
On the resumption of federal student loan payments in October.
The New York Times covers JFI’s latest Millennial Student Debt report
On the upcoming end of a pandemic-era policy that has greatly benefitted student borrowers: the student loan repayment pause.
Two articles in the New York Times cover JFI’s Colorado Child Tax Credit work
JFI VP Halah Ahmad and research associate Jack Landry worked closely with Colorado lawmakers on a large expansion of the...
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities cites Jack Landry’s research
On the Child Tax Credit.
New Research in Millennial Student Debt: The Repayment Pause and the Continuing Crisis of Non-Repayment
JFI's Higher Education Finance team finds striking positive effects of the pandemic-era student loan repayment pause.
Press Release: Colorado Expands Child Tax Credit to Parents With No or Little Income
JFI researchers advised Colorado-based advocacy groups, legislators and the governor’s office on pivotal CTC reforms in a successful collaborative...
The Polycrisis in the news
The Polycrisis returns to the New York Times.
New Phenomenal World series: Market Microstructures
JFI Fellow Elham Saeidinezhad has launched a new series on Phenomenal World consisting of interviews with market-makers and analysis of...
JFI and Berggruen Institute Release Interactive Tool Exploring Impacts of a Public Bank
Digital web app allows anyone to build custom lending portfolios and see projected impacts on affordable housing, green energy, and...
JFI and Berggruen Institute Report: Public Bank Could Significantly Reduce Costs for Green Energy in Los Angeles
Paired with new federal incentives through the Inflation Reduction Act, a public bank could crucially accelerate community and utility-scale renewable...
JFI and Berggruen Institute Report: Public Bank Could Finance Employee-Ownership Transitions for Nearly 1500 LA Workers
Innovative financing mechanisms could help employees purchase small businesses from “a silver tsunami” of retiring owners, generating wealth for buyers,...
Press release: People’s assemblies should govern public banks
A new report from JFI and the Berggruen Institute's Municipal Public Banking series
JFI and Berggruen Institute Report: Public Bank Could Finance Over 17,000 Affordable Homes in Los Angeles
Press release: Latest in publication series on public banking shows how low-cost city programs can help protect and expand affordable...
Now hiring: Research Fellow, Guaranteed Income
A part-time fellowship to work on the formal evaluation of HudsonUP, a multi-year guaranteed income program in Hudson, New York.
CBS covers JFI and Berggruen’s Public Banking report
On the first working paper in a series covering public banking in Los Angeles.
Press Release: JFI and Berggruen Institute Launch Series on Practical Pathways to Public Banking
Forthcoming publications lay out playbook for how a publicly-owned bank could unlock solutions to Los Angeles’ pressing challenges; new digital...
The Polycrisis in the New York Times
"Incisively documenting the emerging shape of this 'new nonalignment.'”
Now Hiring: Phenomenal World Publishing and Operations Associate
Full time position. Based in New York. Portuguese or Spanish fluency strongly preferred.
JFI’s SNAP analysis in the New York Times
Upcoming research by JFI's Jack Landry and Sidhya Balakrishnan, and Northwestern economist Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
Atlantic Council brief: “Clean industrial policies: A space for EU-US collaboration”
JFI fellows Jonah Allen and Théophile Pouget-Abadie wrote this brief as part of our affiliate initiative with the Atlantic...