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Now hiring: Assistant Editor, Phenomenal World
Phenomenal World (PW) is seeking a part-time assistant editor to join its editorial team.
Vox covers JFI’s recent research on the Child Tax Credit
Jack Landry was quoted in Vox in a piece focusing on how Congress may come to a compromise regarding the...
New Report: The Impact of Families with No Income on an Expanded Child Tax Credit
Breaking down the benefits of the expanded CTC by income group.
JFI Researchers Meet with LA Leaders to Discuss Public Bank Options
JFI and Berggruen Institute researchers met over three days with political and civic leaders across Los Angeles to discuss the...
Press Release: Student Debt and Homeownership Barriers in Washington, D.C.
A new collaborative report from the Jain Family Institute (JFI) and the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) sheds light on the...
Atlantic Council policy memo: “How to strike a grand bargain on EU nuclear energy policy”
JFI fellows Jonah Allen and Théophile Pouget-Abadie are co-authors on this policy memo as part of our affiliate initiative...
Events
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Event: We Take Mumbucas: Charting the Complementary Currency that’s Transforming a Brazilian City
A virtual event, Friday, June 30 from 1-2:30pm ET.
Phenomenal World Event: Varieties of Derisking
On industrial policy, state capacity, macrofinance, and the green transition.
“Stewarding” the Energy Transition: A Discussion
A discussion with Madison Condon and Benjamin Braun on how the asset management industry is approaching climate change.
Forum on Education Deserts: Supporting Rural Regions With Fewer Colleges
On May 23, The Chronicle of Higher Education hosts a forum featuring JFI's Laura Beamer on higher education deserts in the...
Discussion: Europe and the “New Washington Consensus”
A discussion on Europe and the Inflation Reduction Act, hosted by Le Grand Continent and Phenomenal World.
Halah Ahmad speaks on guaranteed income at the American Bar Association’s Economic Justice Summit
JFI vice president Ahmad spoke on a panel covering "What is the role of lawyers in guaranteed income programs and...
Publication Series
Policy Microsimulations
The Impact of Families with No Income on an Expanded Child Tax Credit
Breaking down the benefits of the expanded CTC by income group.
Revisiting the Child Tax Credit for the Lame Duck Session: Comparing Parameters for Anti-Poverty Impacts
JFI researchers review recent CTC proposals and simulate the effects of varying key reforms that increase the policy's anti-poverty impacts,...
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...
Millennial Student Debt
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...
The Right Way to Cancel Student Debt
A collaboration between JFI and Debt Collective, the issue brief makes a data-driven case for universal, automatic, and generous debt...
Student Debt and Homeownership Barriers in Washington, D.C.
Part 13 in the Millennial Student Debt Series, this collaborative report sheds light on the intertwined challenges of student loan debt...
Social Wealth Seminar
Social Wealth Seminar: Paul Williams and Zachary Marks
"Building a Future for Public Developers."
Social Wealth Seminar: Jason Windawi
“What Makes Guaranteed Income Durable?"
Social Wealth Seminar: Saule Omarova
“The Case for a U.S. National Investment Authority.”
Municipal Public Banking
Municipal Bank of LA: Interactive Balance Sheet Simulator
The simulator enables the public to allocate resources among the proposed public bank lending programs, testing cost and profit assumptions...
Municipal Bank of LA: Clean Energy Portfolio Options
Paired with new federal incentives through the Inflation Reduction Act, this briefing covers ways a public bank could crucially accelerate...
Municipal Bank of LA: Financial Justice Portfolio Options
This briefing analyzes innovative financing mechanisms that could help employees purchase small businesses from a "silver tsunami" of retiring owners...
Messaging Guaranteed Income
Research Session: Perceptions of Guaranteed Income – New Polling
A look at early results from recent polling research on guaranteed income perceptions and messaging, featuring work from Leah Hamilton...
International Perspectives in Basic Income Messaging – BIRAL Seminar
JFI is hosting the second Basic Income Research and Action Lab (BIRAL) seminar: “International Perspectives in Basic Income Messaging,” an...
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...
From Idea to Reality: Getting to Guaranteed Income
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
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...
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.
Inside Out: Mining and Renewable Energy
Inside Out: A Conversation
A live Twitter conversation between experts and advocates in renewable energy, economics, geology, indigenous rights, land rights, and related issues.
Inside Out: A Webinar
On May 20, 2020, JFI hosted a virtual briefing on a report on renewable energy, the future of mining, and the re-localization...
Inside Out: A Report
Whatever the shape of the coming transition away from fossil fuels, the need to understand the social and distributional costs...