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Center for Active Stewardship’s Splice tool in the Financial Times
"The case against carbon emissions as a universal metric"
Center for Active Stewardship launches Splice, a tool for visualizing how a company’s greenhouse gas emissions change over time
"When it comes to emissions reporting, it’s important to be able to separate signal from noise. Initiatives to reduce...
ISA research cited by White House and others
This research formed part of a White House issue brief, "The Economics of Administration Action on Student Debt."
News Coverage of Phenomenal World’s Brazil Launch with Adam Tooze
Widespread coverage of Brazilian Minister of Finance Fernando Haddad's comments during the launch event.
Working Paper — Navigating Higher Education Insurance: An Experimental Study on Demand and Adverse Selection
A survey-based experiment in collaboration with the Philadelphia Federal Reserve.
Center for Active Stewardship in the Financial Times
Alphaville's Further Reading shares several posts by CAS executive director Nolan Lindquist.
Events
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Panel April 17: ESG’s Second Act: “Climate-Related Risks and Opportunities” After the IRA
Exploring the disconnect between NGO priorities and how investors in public and private markets are analyzing "climate-related risks and opportunities"
Phenomenal World International Expansion: Two Discussions
April 5th at 5pm Eastern Time: Fernando Haddad and Adam Tooze in conversation, and more.
Event: We Take Mumbucas: Charting the Complementary Currency that’s Transforming a Brazilian City
A virtual event, Friday, June 30 from 1-2:30pm ET.
Phenomenal World Event: Varieties of Derisking
On industrial policy, state capacity, macrofinance, and the green transition.
“Stewarding” the Energy Transition: A Discussion
A discussion with Madison Condon and Benjamin Braun on how the asset management industry is approaching climate change.
Forum on Education Deserts: Supporting Rural Regions With Fewer Colleges
On May 23, The Chronicle of Higher Education hosts a forum featuring JFI's Laura Beamer on higher education deserts in the...
Publication Series
Financing the Energy Transition
Nuclear Memo
"JFI modeling suggests that, even with existing reactor designs, greenfield nuclear power plants can be a competitive source of clean,...
Labor Market Policy and the Energy Transition
Labor Market Policy and the Energy Transition: A Problem Statement
"Can skilled labor supply expand at the necessary pace to green our energy system, without wasting an opportunity to negotiate...
Policy Microsimulations
The Tax Liability Red Herring: Defending Child Tax Credit Reforms
Analysis responding to the latest Congressional debates: Insisting CTC improvements go to families who have federal tax liability would ensure...
Responding To the Bipartisan Child Tax Credit Expansion Critics: The Tenuous Evidence Behind Work Disincentives
This report attempts to explain comprehensively why objections to the CTC reforms on the grounds of disincentivizing work are mistaken.
Bipartisan Child Tax Credit Expansion: Analysis of the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024
Congressional tax negotiators have announced an agreement to expand the Child Tax Credit (CTC). The proposal significantly increases benefits for...
Millennial Student Debt
Cost Deception at Elite Private Colleges
Following Millennial Student Debt Part 7, "How Schools Lie: The Deceptive Financial Aid System at America's Colleges," Laura Beamer and Eduard...
The Right Way to Cancel Student Debt
A collaboration between JFI and Debt Collective, the issue brief makes a data-driven case for universal, automatic, and generous debt...
Student Debt Relief for Borrowers with Negative Amortization
The first installment of Part 14 in the Millennial Student Debt Series, this report analyzes systemic issues in student debt non-repayment...
Social Wealth Seminar
Social Wealth Seminar: Paul Williams and Zachary Marks
"Building a Future for Public Developers."
Social Wealth Seminar: Jason Windawi
“What Makes Guaranteed Income Durable?"
Social Wealth Seminar: Saule Omarova
“The Case for a U.S. National Investment Authority.”
Municipal Public Banking
Municipal Bank of LA: Interactive Balance Sheet Simulator
The simulator enables the public to allocate resources among the proposed public bank lending programs, testing cost and profit assumptions...
Municipal Bank of LA: Clean Energy Portfolio Options
Paired with new federal incentives through the Inflation Reduction Act, this briefing covers ways a public bank could crucially accelerate...
Municipal Bank of LA: Financial Justice Portfolio Options
This briefing analyzes innovative financing mechanisms that could help employees purchase small businesses from a "silver tsunami" of retiring owners...
Messaging Guaranteed Income
Research Session: Perceptions of Guaranteed Income – New Polling
A look at early results from recent polling research on guaranteed income perceptions and messaging, featuring work from Leah Hamilton...
International Perspectives in Basic Income Messaging – BIRAL Seminar
JFI is hosting the second Basic Income Research and Action Lab (BIRAL) seminar: “International Perspectives in Basic Income Messaging,” an...
How to frame guaranteed income policy: a review of literature
Plentiful research and pilots have demonstrated the positive impacts of guaranteed income, but policy proposals require careful attention to framing...
From Idea to Reality: Getting to Guaranteed Income
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
JFI Position on Guaranteed Income, August 2021
A new position paper by JFI’s guaranteed income research team brings together years of policy research to define basic...
They Worked: Claudia Sahm on the effects of $1,400 relief payments on families and the economy
New survey data demonstrating how families made use of the third round of cash relief.
Inside Out: Mining and Renewable Energy
Inside Out: A Conversation
A live Twitter conversation between experts and advocates in renewable energy, economics, geology, indigenous rights, land rights, and related issues.
Inside Out: A Webinar
On May 20, 2020, JFI hosted a virtual briefing on a report on renewable energy, the future of mining, and the re-localization...
Inside Out: A Report
Whatever the shape of the coming transition away from fossil fuels, the need to understand the social and distributional costs...