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Media Coverage
Jordan Weissmann, Matt Yglesias cover JFI's microsimulation briefs
JFI's microsimulations provide rapid analysis in response to federal policy debates about the Child Tax Credit
Media Coverage
JFI's Claudia Sahm provides insights on macroeconomic and Fed trends
Featured in the Washington Post, Vox, Bloomberg and elsewhere, Sahm discusses short-run inflation, changing Fed policy, and monetary policy trends
Research
Publication
Homeownership and the Student Debt Crisis: Latest research from the Millennial Student Debt project
The eighth report in JFI’s student debt project, the research explores links between rising student debt and declining homeownership over the past decade
Publication
Memo: Cost Simulations of a Fully-Refundable Child Tax Credit (CTC) 2022-2031
Jack Landry and Stephen Nuñez publish ten-year CTC full refundability estimates, illustrating compromise proposals that retain CTC poverty impacts with space for other social programs
Report
HudsonUP Basic Income Pilot releases year one report; Fast Company coverage
JFI Senior Fellow Leah Hamilton presents early results of the five-year basic income pilot in Hudson, NY with effects on wellbeing, relationships, employment
Event
— Research Session
Research Session: A Critical Review of Macroeconomic Models for Guaranteed Income & the Child Tax Credit
Hourlong session on Friday, Nov 19 at 3pm ET
Media Coverage
"Analysis of Full Refundability of the Child Tax Credit Without Expansion" covered in Huffpost, CNBC
Microsimulation work from Jack Landry and Stephen Nuñez shows significant child poverty reductions
Event
— Webinar
Research Briefing: Macroeconomic Effects of the Child Tax Credit
A brief overview of a JFI report that explores the macroeconomic effects of regular cash transfers, such as the new Child Tax Credit (CTC)
Policy Brief
Analysis of Full Refundability of the Child Tax Credit Without Expansion
Recent reports indicate that the Build Back Better legislative package will allow the increased Child Tax Credit value to continue for one year, while making its full refundability provision permanent; JFI researchers simulate the effects on poverty, costs, and racial equity
Media Coverage
Social Wealth Fund work featured in Brazil's O Globo
Coverage of the partnership between JFI, UFF, CEDE, and the government of the city of Niterói
Press Release
New Release: A Critical Review of Macroeconomic Models for Guaranteed Income & The Child Tax Credit
Part of JFI’s white paper series on guaranteed income, the new report examines economy-wide impacts of these income support policies
Announcement
JFI higher education research supplements grassroots "Debt-Free College" week of action
As part of the Higher Ed Not Debt campaign of Generation Progress, JFI joined other research and policy organizations to provide nonpartisan analysis of free community college proposals and student debt burdens
Media Coverage
JFI's Critical Review of Macroeconomic Models is covered in Insider
Alex Yablon: "Empirical research suggests government money doesn't discourage work"
Event
— Research Session
Investments in Tuition-Free College: Where the US has been and where America's College Promise would take us
Join us for a Research Session with Peter Granville, Senior Policy Associate at The Century Foundation, drawing on his recent report: "Congress's Free Community College Plan Could Benefit 8 Million Students, With the Right Funding Formula."
Publication
In Politico: JFI Fellow Paul Williams, Cea Weaver on federal housing policy
The op-ed presents the case for reconciliation package funds to address a national housing crisis
Press Release
Announcing a new partnership with the municipal sovereign wealth fund of Niterói, Brazil
JFI partners with the Municipal Treasury of the city of Niterói and the Federal Fluminense University to offer tools and analysis in support of the city’s sovereign wealth fund, the Fundo de Equalização da Receita (Budget Stabilization Fund)
Policy Brief
Reducing Refundability of the Child Tax Credit: Assessing Poverty Impacts and Trade-offs
A microsimulation brief finding that proposals to limit the refundability of the Child Tax Credit would increase child poverty by 53 percent, along with other trade-offs
Press Release
New Analysis: Poverty Impacts of the ARPA’s Child Tax Credit Limited Without More Robust Enrollment of Non-filers
The brief provides results of a range of scenarios for CTC take-up rates among eligible children, showing poverty reduction depends on enrollment of millions accessing other benefits
Policy Brief
Assessing Non-filer Rates & Poverty Impacts for the American Rescue Plan Act’s Expanded CTC
A microsimulation of child poverty impacts and analysis of how to reach eligible non-filers for maximum poverty impacts
Media Coverage
Laura Beamer in Open Campus
Scott Smallwood: "We spend a lot of time talking about the cost of college. But what if the numbers we’re using aren’t even right?"
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