Publications
Publication Series
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…
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
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
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...
Part of the series Millennial Student Debt
Rules, Accountability, and the Student Debt Crisis
An overview of institutional trends in higher education which heavily influence student access and indebtedness.
Part of the series Millennial Student Debt
Overview toolkit on guaranteed income in the U.S.
Best practices, resources, and existing models of planned and ongoing research in the U.S., from JFI experts
Student Debt and Young America Annual Report and Comparison Tool
This tool allows for interactive comparisons of higher education and debt statistics for specific geographic areas at the national, state...
Part of the series Millennial Student Debt
Robust evidence for $1400 relief and recovery checks
Drawing on over a decade of rigorous research, JFI Senior Fellow Claudia Sahm presents evidence in favor of additional $1400 checks...
Part of the series From Idea to Reality: Getting to Guaranteed Income
Social Wealth Seminar: Saule Omarova
“The Case for a U.S. National Investment Authority.”
Part of the series Social Wealth Seminar
Comparing bipartisan proposals for a federal child allowance expansion
JFI researchers compare child allowance proposals from the perspective of extensive cash-transfer expertise
Reweaving the Safety Net: The Best Fit for Guaranteed Income
The second installment reviews the literature on cash assistance, indexes current income support and insurance programs, and offers insights on...
Part of the series From Idea to Reality: Getting to Guaranteed Income