Jain Family Institute

10/06/2021

From JFI Fellow Paul Williams and Cea Weaver, NY Housing For All Campaign Coordinator:

Lawmakers will have to make tough decisions to reach a deal on reconciliation. But chopping historic housing investments isn’t the answer.

06/09/2021

Excited to see JFI Senior Fellow Claudia Sahm nominated for this award—

Thank you to Yakov Feygin for the nomination.

The Berggruen Institute welcomes nominations for the 2020 Berggruen Prize. The $1 million award is given annually to thinkers whose ideas have profoundly shaped human self-understanding and advancement in a rapidly changing world.

02/04/2021

See below for more on our fellowship —

10/29/2020

We're hiring a Vice President (VP) of Strategy & Operations to to assist with the management of ongoing and upcoming projects.
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Priority deadline is Friday, November 6, details here:
https://lnkd.in/dZke9Kv

10/19/2020

JFI, Mayor Aja Brown, and Fund for Guaranteed Income announce largest city-based guaranteed income initiative, in Compton, CA—

The Compton Pledge is a two-year guaranteed income initiative for approximately 800 low-income residents of Compton. Read more and sign up for updates here: comptonpledge.org

09/24/2020

Released this week: Interactive map of student debt disparities across congressional districts and states, sampling a million borrowers each year since 2009:

- Between 2009 and 2019, median student debt grew over 40% in 33 congressional districts

- Ten states saw median student debt grow over 25% between 2009 and 2019: New Jersey, Kentucky, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Mississippi, Wisconsin, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee

One of the most comprehensive looks at rising student debt burdens relative to incomes, availability of schools, and demographics—

Following last week’s release of student debt trends since 2009, JFI provides a comprehensive tool for congressional advocacy on the student debt crisis

07/22/2020

The Jain Family Institute (JFI) is seeking an associate to join its editorial team. The associate will edit and grow our web publication, the Phenomenal World (phenomenalworld.org); research and write our weekly newsletter (phenomenalworld.org/letters); and work collaboratively with JFI’s staff on research projects, events, and communications.

The full-time position includes full benefits and a competitive salary.

Please review the full job description (PDF here -https://www.jainfamilyinstitute.org/assets/editorial-associate-jd-july-2020.pdf ) for information about the position and required materials. Submit these materials at your earliest convenience. We have a priority deadline of August 1st, but will be considering applications on a rolling basis and as needed thereafter.

You are a good fit for this position if, first and foremost, you take a look at our publication and newsletter and are interested in what you see. You might be coming out of an undergraduate or graduate program in the social sciences, or have experience working at a publication that covers similar terrain, but these experiences are not at all necessary. Our interdisciplinary work tends to focus on US policy research and international political economy—broad interest in these topics and fields such as history, economics, sociology, and political science will likely be particularly helpful.

07/20/2020

Tomorrow: join us for our second Social Wealth Seminar with Yakov Feygin, Director at the Berggruen Institute. Each session we will be discussing ways to fund more just social service provision—

See here for more details:
https://www.jainfamilyinstitute.org/news/announcing-jfis-social-wealth-seminar/

07/20/2020

Now hiring an Editorial Associate to join our team full time.

The associate will: edit and grow our web publication, the Phenomenal World; research and write our weekly newsletter; and work collaboratively with JFI’s staff on research projects, events, and communications.

See the full job description here:
https://www.jainfamilyinstitute.org/opportunities/editorial-associate/

07/16/2020

"The exorbitant privilege does not net out the exorbitant burden; it is the obverse of a coin held by much of the global power elite."

NEW on Phenomenal World: Herman Mark Schwartz on the geopolitics of dollar dominance—

How the US dollar shapes geopolitical power

07/10/2020

JFI has just released its new series for lawmakers & advocates on how to build & implement a guaranteed income program nationwide—

The first paper is on "Building a Helicopter," pathways for targeting & distributing a US guaranteed income from Stephen Nuñez, Sidhya Balakrishnan, and Sara Constantino.

Amid growing calls for a US guaranteed income, JFI releases a new series for lawmakers and advocates on how to build and implement such a program nationwide

07/07/2020

Join us this Friday for a virtual JFI Research Session with Max Kasy, Associate Professor at Oxford, discussing his work on fairness in algorithmic decision-making.