Publications
Publication Series
Low-Income Families with Children and The Reconciliation Debate
Tax Provisions of the House-passed ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’: Impact on Low-Income Families with Children
“The limited reach of OBBB’s CTC expansion appears poorly understood.”
EITC Certificates: How a Certification Mandate Would Function like a Universal Audit
“If all EITC recipients claiming children must comply with audit procedures to receive a certificate, they will effectively be audited…
Without Improvements to Refundability, any Child Tax Credit Expansion Cannot Benefit Low-Income Working Families
“Refundability is the key mechanism for a CTC expansion to benefit low-income working families.”
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.”
Mineral Wealth and Electrification
Mineral Wealth and Electrification — Technical Appendix
On data sources and data processing.
Mineral Wealth and Electrification — Report
This report adopts a producer-country perspective centered on the potential for wealth creation and public value capture and investment.
Transition-Critical Minerals: Wealth Endowments and Value Capture — Interactive Map
A high-level distribution of current and future mining production and potential royalty revenue globally through 2030.
Financing the Energy Transition
A Tale of Two Solar Technologies
“Protective tariffs enacted to insulate domestic manufacturers from market forces will inevitably come at a cost to downstream solar developers,…
Solar Memo
“Solar is by far the fastest growing power generation technology in the US.” On solar module assembly in the US.
State of Play: Proxy Season 2024
In this report, CAS highlights 21 upcoming annual meetings where our benchmarking raises concerns about the pace of progress on energy…
Millennial Student Debt
A First Look at Student Debt Cancellation
The first analysis of the policy-driven student debt cancellation that has been enacted over the last several years.
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…
Labor Market Policy and the Energy Transition
Labor Market Policy and the Energy Transition: A Problem Statement
“Can skilled labor supply expand at the necessary pace to green our energy system, without wasting an opportunity to negotiate…
Policy Microsimulations
The Tax Liability Red Herring: Defending Child Tax Credit Reforms
Analysis responding to the latest Congressional debates: Insisting CTC improvements go to families who have federal tax liability would ensure…
Responding To the Bipartisan Child Tax Credit Expansion Critics: The Tenuous Evidence Behind Work Disincentives
This report attempts to explain comprehensively why objections to the CTC reforms on the grounds of disincentivizing work are mistaken.
Bipartisan Child Tax Credit Expansion: Analysis of the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024
Congressional tax negotiators have announced an agreement to expand the Child Tax Credit (CTC). The proposal significantly increases benefits for…
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…
Recent Publications
The (In)accessibility of OBBB’s New Tax Cuts
"The new deductions are a minor and ineffective token of targeted support to the middle and working class in an...
The State of SWF Social Impact Integration: Trends and Opportunities
"The sovereign wealth sector has moved past the question of whether social impact matters and on to questions of clarifying...
Benchmarking Opportunity in Transition-Critical Mineral Markets
"The most aggressive growth and price scenarios, which miners tend to favor in their feasibility studies, often embed optimistic assumptions...
Tax Provisions of the House-passed ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’: Impact on Low-Income Families with Children
"The limited reach of OBBB’s CTC expansion appears poorly understood."
Part of the series Low-Income Families with Children and The Reconciliation Debate
EITC Certificates: How a Certification Mandate Would Function like a Universal Audit
"If all EITC recipients claiming children must comply with audit procedures to receive a certificate, they will effectively be audited...
Part of the series Low-Income Families with Children and The Reconciliation Debate
Without Improvements to Refundability, any Child Tax Credit Expansion Cannot Benefit Low-Income Working Families
"Refundability is the key mechanism for a CTC expansion to benefit low-income working families."
Part of the series Low-Income Families with Children and The Reconciliation Debate
Correcting the Record on Child Tax Credit Compliance Concerns
"There is strong evidence that most incorrect CTC payments are benign errors—the bulk of incorrect claims come from close...
Guaranteed Income In The Wild: Summarizing Evidence From Pilot Studies and Implications for Policy
How to make sense of competing claims about guaranteed income?
Mineral Wealth and Electrification — Technical Appendix
On data sources and data processing.
Part of the series Mineral Wealth and Electrification
Mineral Wealth and Electrification — Report
This report adopts a producer-country perspective centered on the potential for wealth creation and public value capture and investment.
Part of the series Mineral Wealth and Electrification
Transition-Critical Minerals: Wealth Endowments and Value Capture — Interactive Map
A high-level distribution of current and future mining production and potential royalty revenue globally through 2030.
Part of the series Mineral Wealth and Electrification
Levelized Cost of Solar Model
A model for estimating the lifetime cost of solar energy generation.