High-Skilled Immigration
Latest Publication
October 12th 2026
DHS’s $100k Fee on STEM OPT Would Break High-Skilled Immigration
The proposed fee would devastate America's most important pipeline for global talent
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Infrastructure
How the Permitting Deal Works
The Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act is the most comprehensive permitting bill yet
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High-Skilled Immigration
Explaining the Proposed $103k H-1B Fee
A Q&A on the legal basis and likely effects of USCIS’s proposal
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Biotechnology
Why Biotech Companies Go to Australia to Test New Drugs
How America can get promising drugs into human trials faster, at lower cost, and without sacrificing safety
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Metascience
Ambitious American Science Requires Reliable and Effective Federal Funding
IFP’s comments on OMB’s proposed rule on Federal Financial Assistance
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Emerging Technology
How Should the US Prepare for Increasingly Automated AI R&D?
23 low-regret policy recommendations
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Infrastructure
The Success of the New Federal Housing Law Now Rests on States and Localities
Billions of dollars could flow to proactive jurisdictions that build more homes
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High-Skilled Immigration
Experience Matters
An implementer’s guide to Experience-Benchmarked prevailing wages for the US high-skilled immigration system
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Metascience
Science Agencies Need Metascience Units
How federal science agencies can cultivate breakthroughs by experimenting on themselves
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Metascience
Picking the Right Challenges for Genesis Mission
The Department of Energy should select specific priority areas when applying AI to R&D
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Infrastructure
Reforming Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act
How Section 106 Works, How It Doesn’t, and Promising Reforms
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Infrastructure
Stop Paying More for Less Transit
Fifteen ideas to bring costs down and speed projects up
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Emerging Technology
A Speed-for-Security Bargain for AI Data Centers
FERC can accelerate interconnection and harden the grid
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Biotechnology
How to Secure the DNA Supply Chain
A field guide for policymakers, founders, and funders
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Emerging Technology
The Deliverome Project
How to break the delivery bottleneck in precision medicine
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Emerging Technology
What Will It Cost for the US to Be Ready for the Next Big AI Breakthrough?
Estimating the resources CAISI needs to deliver on American AI readiness
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