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Announcing Phenomenal World Books
A new publishing collaboration from Phenomenal World and the University of Chicago Press
Featured
Press Release
Annual JFI student debt report released
The 2022 "Student Debt and Young America" annual report shows a continued debt crisis but promising trends during three years of repayment pause and policy change.
Publication
HudsonUP Basic Income Pilot releases year two report
JFI today releases the second year’s report from the HudsonUP Basic Income Pilot, from Principal Investigator and Senior Fellow Leah Hamilton.
Policy Brief
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, parameters which will likely feature in lame-duck negotiations.
Press Release
Launch of the Forum of Brazilian Sovereign Wealth Funds
The forum is a new association that invests in governance for a decarbonized future.
Publication
New Student Debt Report Compares Debtor Makeup to Narratives on Debt Cancellation
The tenth installment in the ongoing Millennial Student Debt project, Laura Beamer's newest report combines three datasets to analyze debt burdens and repayment across class, income, race, gender and degree type.
Event
— Upcoming
— Webinar
Understanding What’s Next in Cash Assistance: State-Level Expansions Through the Tax System
The “Cash Consortium” and the Urban Institute’s State and Local Finance Initiative invite you to join a virtual discussion on recent changes in state cash assistance to families.
Event
— Phenomenal World
The Geopolitics of Stuff
A Phenomenal World panel -- transcript now available
Event
— Research Session
Guaranteed Income as Economic Justice
Hosted in Washington, DC and featuring JFI's Halah Ahmad, this is a joint event by GHI Washington, the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor (Georgetown University) & the Blum Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy (University of California, Santa Barbara). The event is endorsed by the American Historical Association (AHA).
Event
— Research Session
Do Basic Income Experiments Influence Policy?
A virtual and in-person panel hosted at the 2022 Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) Congress taking place in Brisbane, Australia between September 26 and 28, 2022 -- featuring JFI's Stephen Nuñez.
Research
JFI's higher ed data in Joint Economic Committee fact sheets
The fact sheets cover the effects of Biden administration policies
Media Coverage
Press coverage on JFI's Higher Education Finance research
A roundup of recent coverage.
Media Coverage
JFI's guaranteed income analysis in the New York Times
The article, "Guaranteed Income Programs Spread, City by City," features JFI's political economy research
Press Release
New Release: Political economy of guaranteed income
JFI experts on guaranteed income research and policy communications close out the 'getting to guaranteed income' white paper series, including with lessons from Saru Jayaraman of One Fair Wage
Publication
Research Brief: Migration and Housing Inflation, by Paul Williams
How rents impacted pandemic migrations, and migrations shape rent growth
Event
Halah Ahmad speaks at the BIG conference on guaranteed income pilots and policy
Ahmad spoke alongside Madeline Neighly (Economic Security Project) and Kathrine Cagat (Mayors for a Guaranteed Income)
Press Release
Press Release: The first technical seminar of the Forum of Brazilian Sovereign Wealth Funds
Researchers from the Jain Family Institute (JFI) and Brazil’s Federal Fluminense University (UFF) gathered with experts and government officials today for a sovereign wealth fund seminar in Niterói, Brazil
Event
— Phenomenal World
Phenomenal World event: Diminishing Returns
Virtual event June 22, 2022 at 4pm ET
Event
— Research Session
A virtual discussion on Half-Earth Socialism, June 17 at 3pm ET
A conversation with Drew Pendergrass and JFI Researcher Francis Tseng
Announcement
Announcing JFI’s partnership with the Research in Color Foundation
The partnership will support RIC’s work to champion scholars of color in economics and related fields.
Event
Phenomenal World event: IMF and the Legacy of Bretton Woods
Video now available from our panel discussion on the global monetary system
Publication
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 cancellation
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