On The Record Spotlight

Austerity Has Cost The U.S. Economy 2.2 Million Jobs: Study

Huffington Post • May 7, 2013 • Mark Gongloff

In a recent article in the Huffington Post, Mark Gongloff discusses findings from The Hamilton Project’s latest employment analysis, “Should the United States Have 2.2 Million More Jobs?”

How Our Incredible Shrinking Government Raises Unemployment and Hurts the Recovery

The Atlantic • May 6, 2013 • Derek Thompson

Today in The Atlantic, Derek Thompson discusses findings from The Hamilton Project’s latest employment analysis, “Should the United States Have 2.2 Million More Jobs?” In the analysis, the Project explores the trajectory of public-sector employment since the Great Recession. The findings show that if the policy response to this recession had been similar to the response after other recent recessions, the economy would have about 2.2 million more jobs today.

Why not measure how well government works?

Washington Post • April 15, 2013 • Jim Tankersley and Dylan Matthews

Washington Post’s Jim Tankersley and Dylan Matthews previewed new Hamilton Project papers: "Building on Recent Advances in Evidence-Based Policymaking," by Jeffrey Liebman, and "Using Data to Improve the Performance of Workforce Training," by Louis Jacobson and Robert LaLonde.

15 Budget Ideas That Are Better Than Sequester Plan

Bloomberg View/Washington Post • February 28, 2013 • Ezra Klein

In his column in Bloomberg View and Washington Post, Ezra Klein highlights The Hamilton Project’s “15 Ways to Rethink the Federal Budget.”

Recently On the Record

The buck does not stop with Reinhart and Rogoff

Financial Times • May 13, 2013 • Lawrence Summers

In his latest Financial Times column, Advisory Council member Lawrence Summers discusses the controversy surrounding an error by researchers Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff in a study that showed “that economic growth is likely to stagnate in a given country once the ratio of its government debt to gross domestic product exceeded a threshold of 90 percent.”

Arguments against Exporting Natural Gas Don’t Add Up

EconoMonitor • May 9, 2013 • Ed Dolan

Ed Dolan discusses The Hamilton Project paper, "A Strategy for U.S. Natural Gas Exports,” in which Michael Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations poses a framework for regulators to determine if exporting natural gas is in the public interest, arguing the upsides of exports outweigh the costs as long as the government acts to mitigate risk.

How Washington increased unemployment and hurt growth

Washington Post (Wonkblog) • May 9, 2013 • Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas

Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas cites data from The Hamilton Project's jobs gap calculator, a interactive feature that allows you to calculate how long it will take to close the “jobs gap” under different scenarios of growth. Klein and Soltas note that according to the calculator, if the economy adds about 208,000 jobs per month, which was the average monthly rate for the best year of job creation in the 2000s, then it will take until April 2020 to close the jobs gap.

Weatherproofing Cities to Face Future Sandys

Bloomberg View • May 8, 2013 • Peter Orszag

In his latest Bloomberg View column, Advisory Council member Peter Orszag discusses climate change and strategies for mitigating the risk of natural disasters.

Obama in a pinch to do more on jobs

Associated Press • May 8, 2013 • Jim Kuhnhenn

The Associated Press’ Jim Kuhnhenn quotes Hamilton Project Director Michael Greenstone in a story on the Obama administration’s “renewed focus on jobs.”