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Recent Publications
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
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
Toolkit on guaranteed income in the U.S. for pilots, research
JFI released guaranteed income toolkit of collective best practices, pilot efforts & policy as cash initiatives continue to grow and policy...
Part of the series From Idea to Reality: Getting to Guaranteed Income
Part of the series Messaging Guaranteed Income