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New Release: JFI’s Annual Student Debt Report, 2022
The 2022 "Student Debt and Young America" annual report shows a continued debt crisis but promising trends during three years of...
HudsonUP Basic Income Pilot releases year two report
The second year’s report from the HudsonUP Basic Income Pilot, from Principal Investigator and Senior Fellow Leah Hamilton.
Launch of the Forum of Brazilian Sovereign Wealth Funds
The forum is a new association that invests in governance for a decarbonized future.
The Polycrisis in the New York Times
The Polycrisis is Phenomenal World's new climate newsletter written by Kate Mackenzie and Tim Sahay.
New Student Debt Report Compares Debtor Makeup to Narratives on Debt Cancellation
The tenth installment in the ongoing Millennial Student Debt project, Laura Beamer's newest report combines three datasets to analyze debt...
Press coverage on JFI’s Higher Education Finance research
A roundup of recent coverage.
JFI’s guaranteed income analysis in the New York Times
The article, "Guaranteed Income Programs Spread, City by City," features JFI's political economy research
New Release: Political economy of guaranteed income
JFI experts on guaranteed income research and policy communications close out the 'getting to guaranteed income' white paper series, including...
Press Release: The first technical seminar of the Forum of Brazilian Sovereign Wealth Funds
Researchers from the Jain Family Institute (JFI) and Brazil’s Federal Fluminense University (UFF) gathered with experts and government officials...
Announcing JFI’s partnership with the Research in Color Foundation
The partnership will support RIC’s work to champion scholars of color in economics and related fields.
Research by Laura Beamer and Eduard Nilaj in the New York Times
JFI's higher ed research cited by David Brooks
Lead Researcher Laura Beamer on the Brian Lehrer Show
Beamer spoke about student debt cancellation
JFI’s Macro Initiative
An Announcement
Claudia Sahm at the National Association of Business Economics
NABE's 38th annual economic policy conference
Rules, Accountability, and the Student Debt Crisis – New report from Laura Beamer
The paper explores the cross-section of the student debt crisis and key accountability measures under discussion in the Dept. of...
HudsonUP pilot features in The Economist
The HudsonUP Basic Income Pilot has completed one year of payments to its initial 25-person cohort; one recipient shares his...
JFI launches new macroeconomic research initiative, led by Claudia Sahm
Sahm’s new research area contributes to the current sea change in macroeconomic policy, providing tools and frameworks on employment...
Stephen Nuñez speaks to The Hill about the Child Tax Credit
Nuñez's comments are informed by microsimulation work with Jack Landry on the impacts of the expanded Child Tax Credit
Claudia Sahm speaks at NY Fed Symposium “Heterogeneity in Macroeconomics: Implications for Policy”
An event from the Applied Macroeconomics and Econometrics Center (AMEC) of the New York Fed
Coverage of “Homeownership and Student Debt” in Bloomberg, Politico
"Homeownership and Student Debt" is the eighth post in JFI's Millennial Student Debt project
Bloomberg: “The Year Basic Income Programs Went Mainstream”
Stephen Nuñez speaks on what we know, and what we don't, from guaranteed income pilots
JFI microsimulations in Congressional testimony, Congressional Research Service FAQ
"Assessing Non-Filer Rates," JFI's first microsimulation brief, in testimony to Select Subcommittee Committee on the Coronavirus Crisis
Jordan Weissmann, Matt Yglesias cover JFI’s microsimulation briefs
JFI's microsimulations provide rapid analysis in response to federal policy debates about the Child Tax Credit
JFI’s Claudia Sahm provides insights on macroeconomic and Fed trends
Featured in the Washington Post, Vox, Bloomberg and elsewhere, Sahm discusses short-run inflation, changing Fed policy, and monetary policy trends