Publication

Social Wealth Seminar: Paul Williams and Zachary Marks

"Building a Future for Public Developers."

Part of the series Social Wealth Seminar

Phenomenal World event: IMF and the Legacy of Bretton Woods

Video now available from our panel discussion on the global monetary system

Cost Deception at Elite Private Colleges

Following Millennial Student Debt Part 7, "How Schools Lie: The Deceptive Financial Aid System at America's Colleges," Laura Beamer and Eduard...

Part of the series Millennial Student Debt

Economic War and the Commodity Shock

Javier Blas, Nicholas Mulder, and Alex Yablon in conversation on April 8, 2022 at 11am Eastern Time

A New Public Housing Model — Addis Ababa’s Urban Transformation

The first report from JFI's Social Wealth Portfolio

Sidhya Balakrishnan speaking at “Keeping it Real OC: Building Financial Strength for Vulnerable Families”

Orange County United Way hosts a "Keeping it Real OC" dialogue with a panel of experts, including JFI's Director of...

The Expanded Child Tax Credit and Parental Employment: Tenuous Evidence Points to Work Disincentives

Some academics and policymakers argue that the expanded Child Tax Credit will disincentive work; this report points out the weak...

Part of the series Policy Microsimulations

Homeownership and the Student Debt Crisis

The homeownership rate among student borrowers declined by 24 percent from 2009 to 2019. Asian- and Black-plurality US Census Tracts saw the steepest...

Part of the series Millennial Student Debt

Memo: Cost Simulations of a Fully-Refundable Child Tax Credit (CTC) 2022-2031

Jack Landry and Stephen Nuñez publish ten-year CTC full refundability estimates, illustrating compromise proposals that retain CTC poverty impacts...

Part of the series Policy Microsimulations

HudsonUP Basic Income Pilot releases year one report; Fast Company coverage

JFI Senior Fellow Leah Hamilton presents early results of the five-year basic income pilot in Hudson, NY with effects on...

Analysis of Full Refundability of the Child Tax Credit Without Expansion

Recent reports indicate that the Build Back Better legislative package will allow the increased Child Tax Credit value to continue...

Part of the series Policy Microsimulations

Model Behavior: A Critical Review of Macroeconomic Models for Guaranteed Income and The Child Tax Credit

This third report in our “Getting to Guaranteed Income” series shares the lessons from six macroeconomic modeling analyses of the...

Part of the series From Idea to Reality: Getting to Guaranteed Income

Reducing Refundability of the Child Tax Credit: Assessing Poverty Impacts and Trade-offs

A microsimulation brief finding that proposals to limit the refundability of the Child Tax Credit would increase child poverty by 53...

Part of the series Policy Microsimulations

Assessing Non-filer Rates & Poverty Impacts for the American Rescue Plan Act’s Expanded CTC

A microsimulation of child poverty impacts and analysis of how to reach eligible non-filers for maximum poverty impacts

Part of the series From Idea to Reality: Getting to Guaranteed Income

Part of the series Policy Microsimulations

How Schools Lie: The Deceptive Financial Aid System at America’s Colleges

A view into how colleges mislead students about the true cost of college, which exacerbates delays in completion, drop outs,...

Part of the series Millennial Student Debt

JFI Position on Guaranteed Income, August 2021

A new position paper by JFI’s guaranteed income research team brings together years of policy research to define basic...

Part of the series From Idea to Reality: Getting to Guaranteed Income

Phenomenal World Panel Discussion on the Future of Social Democracy

A discussion around our book, MARKET ECONOMY, MARKET SOCIETY, featuring Stephanie Mudge, Adam Przeworski, Wolfgang Streeck, and Waltraud Schelkle, co-hosted...

Opportunity in Crisis: New Polling on Public Opinion Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

Results from a nationally representative survey investigating how the public health and economic impacts of COVID-19 influenced Americans’ attitudes towards...

Part of the series Messaging Guaranteed Income

They Worked: Claudia Sahm on the effects of $1,400 relief payments on families and the economy

New survey data demonstrating how families made use of the third round of cash relief.

Part of the series From Idea to Reality: Getting to Guaranteed Income

Student loans, the racial wealth divide, and why we need full student debt cancellation

“No matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee that you’ll need an education to do...

Part of the series Millennial Student Debt

Social Wealth Seminar: Jason Windawi

“What Makes Guaranteed Income Durable?"

Part of the series Social Wealth Seminar

Paul Williams and James Medlock on paternalism, market failures, and welfare policy in the US

An argument worth examining for what it illuminates about the role of paternalism in safety net policy, and persistent misunderstandings...

Part of the series From Idea to Reality: Getting to Guaranteed Income

Hysteresis and Student Debt

Sérgio Pinto and Marshall Steinbaum bring together the labor economics literature on hysteresis and ongoing research into shape of...

Part of the series Millennial Student Debt

How to frame guaranteed income policy: a review of literature

Plentiful research and pilots have demonstrated the positive impacts of guaranteed income, but policy proposals require careful attention to framing...

Part of the series Messaging Guaranteed Income