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Laura Beamer speaks to Vox about student debt
"There are no easy answers on canceling student debt," writes Vox's Emily Stewart
Creating a cash button: new op ed in Insider from Stephen Nuñez and Rachel Black
"The government needs a better system so getting cash to people isn't so painfully slow."
Steve Nuñez speaks about the expanded child tax credit on CBS
Article and video feature Nuñez's analysis of the impactful expansion in the American Rescue Plan
JFI’s guaranteed income work in USA Today
"Is Universal Income Closer to Reality?"
Millennial Student Debt in Newsweek and NPR
Laura Beamer, Lead Researcher on Higher Education Finance, speaks about the student debt crisis
Student Debt and Young America: JFI’s annual report and new geographic comparison tool
The new report summarizes the state of student debt for 18 to 35 year olds; the accompanying comparison tool facilitates comparisons across...
First book from the Phenomenal World: Market Economy, Market Society
A series of interviews and essays on the breakdown of social democracy across continental Europe in the 1980s and 1990s
“Combating Inequality”: JFI Executive Director Michael Stynes publishes paper with Larry Katz and Jesse Rothstein
The paper is a chapter in the new MIT Press book edited by Olivier Blanchard and Dani Rodrik
Now Hiring: Operations Associate
JFI is seeking an Operations Associate to join our operations team in supporting our diverse projects and general nonprofit administration
Announcing the Collective Action in Tech Fellowship
The fellowship will highlight collective action among tech workers in the Global South
Compton, California and Maricá, Brazil guaranteed income in Bloomberg
A new article in Bloomberg Citylab: "2021 will be the year of guaranteed income experiments"
Laura Beamer speaks to the Texas Standard about the student debt crisis
The conversation draws on JFI's Millennial Student Debt project
View all of 2020’s Social Wealth Seminar sessions
An archive of 2020’s eleven sessions in JFI’s ongoing virtual forum exploring strategies to manage public assets and resources...
Press Release: Reweaving the Safety Net: The Best Fit for Guaranteed Income
Part of “From Idea to Reality,” JFI’s white paper series on building guaranteed income in the US, the new...
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
JFI Fellow Mike Pizzi writes on artifical intelligence governance at the United Nations
Co-authored with Mila Romanoff, the piece provides an overview of AI governance at UN Global Pulse
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...
JFI co-hosts international roundtable on AI governance with UNESCO, Future Society
Along with several major research, policy, and legal organizations, JFI digital ethics researchers convened for the 2nd annual Athens Roundtable...
JFI report by senior fellow Marshall Steinbaum examines the crisis of non-repayment of student debt
A new analysis in the Millennial Student Debt series finds that student debt loads are increasingly difficult for students to...
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...
JFI, Mayor Aja Brown, and Fund for Guaranteed Income announce largest city-based guaranteed income initiative
The Compton Pledge is a two-year guaranteed income initiative for approximately 800 low-income residents of Compton
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
Announcing the Outcomes Center in collaboration with the San Diego Workforce Partnership
The Outcomes Center contains tools and information for workforce income share agreements