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JFI Lead Researcher on Guaranteed Income, Stephen Nuñez, spoke to the state of research in guaranteed income and UBI

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, New Jersey Mayor Ras Baraka has continued to advance toward a guaranteed income program with the newly-launched Newark Movement for Economic Equity website

Friday, April 23, at 11:30 Eastern Time

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

The guaranteed income initiative in southern California has already disbursed $1 million

Khalil Esmkhani, Jack Favilukis, and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh revise and expand their macroeconomic model of guaranteed income in NYC to examine new forms of financing

"The government needs a better system so getting cash to people isn't so painfully slow."

Article and video feature Nuñez's analysis of the impactful expansion in the American Rescue Plan

"Is Universal Income Closer to Reality?"

Best practices, resources, and existing models of planned and ongoing research in the U.S., from JFI experts

Laura Beamer, Lead Researcher on Higher Education Finance, speaks about the student debt crisis

The new report summarizes the state of student debt for 18 to 35 year olds; the accompanying comparison tool facilitates comparisons across regions

Drawing on over a decade of rigorous research, JFI Senior Fellow Claudia Sahm presents evidence in favor of additional $1400 checks for all those that received $600 earlier this year

JFI researchers compare child allowance proposals from the perspective of extensive cash-transfer expertise

A series of interviews and essays on the breakdown of social democracy across continental Europe in the 1980s and 1990s

The paper is a chapter in the new MIT Press book edited by Olivier Blanchard and Dani Rodrik

JFI is seeking an Operations Associate to join our operations team in supporting our diverse projects and general nonprofit administration

The fellowship will highlight collective action among tech workers in the Global South

The panel took place on Zoom on Monday, January 25, 2-4pm ET