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A new publishing collaboration from Phenomenal World and the University of Chicago Press

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.

JFI today releases the second year’s report from the HudsonUP Basic Income Pilot, from Principal Investigator and Senior Fellow Leah Hamilton.

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.

The forum is a new association that invests in governance for a decarbonized future.

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.

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.

A Phenomenal World panel -- transcript now available

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).

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.

The fact sheets cover the effects of Biden administration policies

A roundup of recent coverage.

The article, "Guaranteed Income Programs Spread, City by City," features JFI's political economy research

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

How rents impacted pandemic migrations, and migrations shape rent growth

Ahmad spoke alongside Madeline Neighly (Economic Security Project) and Kathrine Cagat (Mayors for a Guaranteed Income)

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

Virtual event June 22, 2022 at 4pm ET

A conversation with Drew Pendergrass and JFI Researcher Francis Tseng

The partnership will support RIC’s work to champion scholars of color in economics and related fields.

Video now available from our panel discussion on the global monetary system

A collaboration between JFI and Debt Collective, the issue brief makes a data-driven case for universal, automatic, and generous debt cancellation