To be considered for this role, you must apply directly through our online application. Overview The Budget and Entitlement Policy team analyzes federal spending, increasing debt, and the long-term fiscal outlook of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the budget process. Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett produce policy analyses, op-eds, data briefs, congressional testimony, and Hill briefings on fiscal reform — recent work covers Social Security solvency and benefit structures, emergency spending and rescissions, Medicaid funding mechanics, and SNAP policy. Their …

To be considered for this role, you must apply directly through our online application. Overview Cato’s Immigration Studies program conducts original quantitative and legal research on US immigration policy — including legal immigration pathways, visa backlogs, border enforcement, asylum, interior enforcement, and the labor market and economic impacts of immigration. David Bier’s work is data-intensive and methodologically rigorous, including analyses of green card approval rates, deportation statistics, enforcement trends, and visa processing backlogs. It draws on government administrative datasets from …

To be considered for this role, you must apply directly through our online application. Overview HumanProgress.org documents the evidence that human life is improving—tracking progress in health, wealth, education, the environment, innovation, and freedom — using data from sources such as the World Bank, UN, OECD, and Our World in Data. The site, newsletter, and podcast reach a wide audience, aiming to challenge negative narratives with trend data rather than alarmist headlines. Interns support data collection and visualization, editorial review, …

To be considered for this role, you must apply directly through our online application. Overview The Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies is a leading trade policy research center in Washington, producing analysis on US and global trade law and economics, protectionism and industrial policy, supply chains, and trade institutions. Scott Lincicome, Colin Grabow, Clark Packard, and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon produce policy analyses, op-eds, data-driven research, and rapid-response commentary on the most debated trade issues today. Their recent …

To be considered for this role, you must apply directly through our online application. Overview Cato’s Energy and Environmental Policy Studies program examines US energy markets, electricity regulation, federal and state energy subsidies, environmental regulation, and permitting from a free-market perspective rooted in individual liberty and limited government. Travis Fisher — a former FERC economist and DOE senior advisor with nearly two decades of experience in energy policy — specializes in the economics of electricity markets, the fiscal costs of …

To be considered for this role, you must apply directly through our online application. Overview The Economic and Social Policy Studies team conducts empirical research on immigration, labor markets, social insurance, demographics, and regulation — with a focus on rigorous quantitative analysis using large government microdata sets. Alex Nowrasteh and Krit Chanwong’s recent work includes analyzing immigration and incarceration using American Community Survey microdata, evaluating terrorism risk using the Global Terrorism Database, and modeling Social Security using overlapping-generations methods and …

To be considered for this role, you must apply directly through our online application. Overview The Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity examines how economic and personal freedoms affect prosperity and human well-being worldwide. Ian Vásquez co-authors the annual Human Freedom Index — the most comprehensive global assessment of personal, civil, and economic liberties — and is a prominent analyst of Latin American political economy, focusing on authoritarian regimes, market reforms, and the region’s ongoing challenges with populism and statism. …

To be considered for this role, you must apply directly through our online application. Overview Mustafa Akyol is a prominent voice on Islam, liberty, and modernity — recognized by Prospect magazine as one of the top 50 thinkers worldwide and the author of several books examining how Islamic thought aligns with individual freedom, human rights, and limited government. His work examines classical Islamic texts, contemporary politics in Muslim-majority countries, and the experiences of Muslim minorities in the West. His newest …

To be considered for this role, you must apply directly through our online application. Overview The Center for Educational Freedom promotes parental choice and limited government in K–12 education, higher education, and early childhood policy. Neal McCluskey conducts policy analyses, op-eds, books, congressional testimony, and interactive research tools — including the Public Schooling Battle Map and the School Choice Timeline — focusing on school choice programs, federal education spending, student loan policy, accreditation, and the constitutional limits of federal involvement …