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Announcements
New working paper polls guaranteed income support
Leah Hamilton, Appalachian State University Associate Professor and JFI Senior Fellow, released a working paper on support for guaranteed income proposals with varying parameters
Newark guaranteed income pilot launches website
Newark, New Jersey Mayor Ras Baraka has continued to advance toward a guaranteed income program with the newly-launched Newark Movement for Economic Equity website
Announcing a Partnership between HudsonUP and JFI
HudsonUP is the first pilot of its kind to take place in a small town in America, and one of the first to take place over the course of several years
Compton Pledge completes enrollment of 800 families
The guaranteed income initiative in southern California has already disbursed $1 million
"Combating Inequality": JFI Executive Director Michael Stynes publishes paper with Larry Katz and Jesse Rothstein
The paper is a chapter in the new MIT Press book edited by Olivier Blanchard and Dani Rodrik
Now Hiring: Operations Associate
JFI is seeking an Operations Associate to join our operations team in supporting our diverse projects and general nonprofit administration
Announcing the Collective Action in Tech Fellowship
The fellowship will highlight collective action among tech workers in the Global South
JFI's Steve Nuñez speaks alongside Mayors Michael Tubbs and Keisha Lance Bottoms
In a meeting of Atlanta’s Old 4th Ward Task Force exploring a guaranteed income pilot, JFI Lead Researcher on Guaranteed Income Stephen Nuñez provided lessons from existing pilots and research
JFI offers expert perspective on AI and criminal justice for NJC
JFI Digital Ethics and Governance Fellow Lily Hu spoke on a National Judicial College panel discussing AI and criminal justice
JFI shares guaranteed income expertise for 2020 Korea Basic Income Fair
JFI Lead Researcher in Guaranteed Income Stephen Nuñez spoke virtually alongside Brazilian political leader Eduardo Suplicy at an international conference of the Gyeonggi Provincial Government in South Korea
JFI Capital Launches
How to support JFI’s projects
JFI's Arden Ali presents on digital ethics to the American Bar Association
JFI Lead Researcher in Digital Ethics & Governance, Arden Ali, spoke on a panel for the ABA International Law Section, discussing ethical and legal frameworks relevant to AI and algorithm technologies.
Call for Abstracts: MIT x JFI workshop on algorithmic ethics
JFI and the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing are hosting a workshop this April on the ethics of algorithms.
Stephen Nuñez testifies on basic income to New York City Council
JFI’s Project Lead on Guaranteed Income, Stephen Nuñez, provides testimony to the Committee on Civil Service & Labor at New York City Council, providing insights on fears of automation and research on basic income
JFI researchers at UN Global Pulse discussions in Geneva
JFI Digital Ethics Project Lead, Arden Ali, and JFI Research Fellow Michael Pizzi participate in UN Global Pulse discussions on human rights and AI.
AI and the rule of law
JFI attended the inaugural roundtable in Athens
First meeting of Newark's UBI task force
A potential pilot in Newark, New Jersey
A panel on guaranteed income in Chicago
Lauren Burns-Coady in conversation with Ameya Pawar and Ebony Scott
JFI presents at the North American basic income guarantee congress
Lauren Burns-Coady, Sidhya Balakrishnan, and Sara Constantino present on the role of pilots in cash transfer research
JFI testifies before the Alaska state legislature
Director of Research Sidhya Balakrishnan lends her expertise to a discussion of the Alaska Permanent Fund’s disbursement schedule
Economic Security for IL publishes its full report
JFI contributed to the report’s section on basic income pilots
Workshop in Ethical Engineering
A new MIT course taught by JFI fellows
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