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Laura Beamer, Lead Researcher on Higher Ed Finance, speaks with Yahoo! Finance on the findings of our first report on higher ed access throughout the U.S.

Outcome and JFI form an exclusive partnership to spearhead a new phase of growth for the income share agreement market and the students it serves.

JFI and the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing are hosting a workshop this April on the ethics of algorithms.

JFI Project Lead on Higher Ed, Laura Beamer, comments on higher education desserts and our newest research findings in USA Today.

JFI's Guaranteed Income Project Lead, Stephen Nuñez, produced an illuminating blog on Phenomenal World, explaining the JFI-supported macroeconomic model of UBI in NYC.

JFI-supported research by Jack Favilukis, Khalil Esmkhani, and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh is the first attempt to model UBI at a city-level, in New York City, and finds positive welfare impacts.

A new working paper of JFI-supported research simulates a city-level UBI policy implemented in NYC finds multiple, positive welfare impacts.

An in-depth look at the Maricá basic income policy & its early effects, implications.

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa's cash transfer experiment and the larger picture of UBI research from JFI CEO Michael Stynes

Higher Ed Finance Project Lead Laura Beamer and Senior Fellow Marshall Steinbaum speak with Inside Higher Ed on the implications of their recently-released map and write-up that tracks higher ed access throughout the US & its territories.

More coverage of our recently-released research on "The Geography of Higher Ed" by Education Dive, with commentary on free-college proposals, the role of for-profits, and online options.

Preliminary results from JFI's ongoing study of access to higher education in the US.

A new interactive map shows U.S. higher education access, including enrollment, concentration, and schools by ZIP code, and indicates disparity in access by economic and geographic boundaries.

Steve and Paul wrote for Global Americans with our partner Fábio Waltenberg of UFF, on lessons for UBI research from Maricá.

Stynes describes how Finland's basic income trial was hamstrung from success.

Columbia Economist Suresh Naidu presented upcoming research on labor market power at a JFI Research Session.

Stephen Nuñez spoke to El Pais on our basic income research in Maricá, Brazil.

Doug Webber, Associate Professor of Economics at Temple University, joined us for a JFI Research Session to share the results of his recent work.

JFI CEO Michael Stynes and Guaranteed Income Project Lead Stephen Nuñez discussed our research in Maricá on unconditional cash transfers for over 50,000 people.