The Hamilton Project produces evidence-based policy proposals and analyses to promote broad-based economic growth.

In this economic analysis, experts examine data on the 60 jobs that employ the most workers in the United States and have the highest and lowest susceptibility to automation in the next 10 to 20 years, with a particular focus on Black and Hispanic workers.

In this proposal, Harry Holzer outlines ways to boost students and workers in the American economy. He recommends enacting reforms to increase funding for the Higher Education Act of 1965, adding modest taxes on worker displacement, and more.

This analysis examines the impacts of the pandemic recession across different dimensions, including employment, labor force participation, and the need to switch industries and occupations.

Ten Senate Republicans recently proposed a $618-billion COVID relief package. In this piece, we provide an analysis of that package and update our analysis of the Biden Administration’s $1.9 trillion fiscal package, using current-law GDP projections.

In 2021, The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution has re-published an interactive map using national chronic absence data reported by school districts to the U.S. Department of Education Office for the 2017-18 school year.

In this piece, Wendy Edelberg and Louise Sheiner break down the components of Biden's $1.9 trillion fiscal package. With it, households and businesses would make up some of the economic activity foregone during the pandemic.

In this analysis, experts find that while nearly every school in our sample offered in-person experiences in March, only about 30 percent were planning to maintain that in-person experience by September. 

This analysis examines the benefits of an array of social insurance programs. Edelberg and Lu recommend improving automatic stabilizers to provide better social protections for families and workers in future recessions.

In this analysis, Aaronson and Edelberg find evidence of structural damage in the monthly employment data. Early in the pandemic, most workers who lost jobs were laid off temporarily, as businesses expected to reopen and recall their workers.

This analysis examines five policies: a second round of checks to households, a resumption of enhanced unemployment insurance benefits, aid to state and local governments, support for small businesses, and other forms of fiscal support.

We present two data interactives that explore how trends in teen labor force participation and school enrollment during the academic year and the summer have changed in the past 20 years (2000 to 2020) and across the United States in 2020.

On Thursday, October 8, The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution will host a webcast discussion examining the future of higher education and workforce development during COVID-19 and beyond.