Publications
Publication Series
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…
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…
Recent Publications
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...
Part of the series Millennial Student Debt
Mexico’s Petroleum Hedging Program as Counter-Cyclical Insurance
A new report and modeling exercise point to the possible relevance of this successful petroleum hedging strategy to other exporting...
Cash at the State Level: Guaranteed Income Through the Child Tax Credit
Eleven states have passed refundable CTCs ranging in value from $300 to $1,750 per eligible child.
We Take Mumbucas: Charting the Complementary Currency That’s Transforming a Brazilian City
A new report by Andrea Gama and interactive visualization from Francis Tseng.
Part of the series Social Wealth Seminar
The Repayment Pause and the Continuing Crisis of Non-Repayment
Part 12 in the Millennial Student Debt Series, this report analyzes student loan repayment during the pandemic repayment moratorium.
Part of the series Millennial Student Debt
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...
Part of the series Municipal Public Banking
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...
Part of the series Municipal Public Banking
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...
Part of the series Municipal Public Banking
Municipal Bank of LA: Democratic Governance Frameworks
A briefing by Michael McCarthy of the Berggruen Institute on deliberative democracy for public finance and investment.
Part of the series Municipal Public Banking
Municipal Bank of LA: Housing Solutions and Portfolio Options
An analysis of how a public bank in Los Angeles could support the city’s broader infrastructure, housing, and sustainability...
Part of the series Municipal Public Banking
What a Public Bank Can Do for L.A. and Its People
A summary analysis of lending programs that create more affordable housing, empower worker ownership of small business, and accelerate the...
Part of the series Municipal Public Banking
Student Debt and Young America in 2022 – Annual Report and Data Comparison Tool
The annual report provides a full analysis of the state of student debt in 2022—and what it could look like...
Part of the series Millennial Student Debt