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If the debt limit binds, how would the U.S. Treasury operate? How much would federal spending have to be cut? How would the economy be affected? Wendy Edelberg and Louise Sheiner explain the stakes and potential ramifications.
This review highlights 12 key data visualizations produced by The Hamilton Project that capture the spirit of its work in 2022—including research evaluating the economic policy response to the pandemic, labor market conditions, social insurance programs, and more.
A December 2022 webcast featuring Sen. Joe Manchin and two roundtables of experts explored how to increase and more equitably share the economic benefits of immigration.
Two measures suggest different gaps between the current strength in the labor market and what a more sustainable level would be. This analysis finds that the rate of job openings has been more in line with its historical relationship to the hires rate than its relationship to the unemployment rate.
In September 2022, The Hamilton Project hosted an event exploring how the modernization of industrial policy can support economic growth. The event featured a keynote with U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and highlighted two policy proposals on good jobs and critical technology strategy.
When Katherine Lim and Ryan Nunn examine why some prime-aged workers are not participating in the labor force, caregiving stands out as an important factor. Dual labor force participation has particularly declined for less-educated couples with younger children.
Pandemic EBT has the potential to be a powerful tool to fight food hardship among children when schools close for summer. But to realize its potential, states need to participate in the program and deliver benefits in a timely manner.
An analysis of the size and composition of the labor force identifies both populations and policies that could contribute to gains in labor force participation.
A June 2022 Hamilton Project event explored how program design matters for the long-term success of social insurance programs.
During The Hamilton Project's “Tackling International Tax” event, experts explored significant changes to the taxing of international corporate income.
In this analysis we offer inflation-related updates to Chapter 1 of Recession Remedies: Lessons Learned from the U.S. Economic Policy Response to COVID-19, highlighting that the service sector has replaced goods as the primary driver of inflationary pressure in recent months, and that the continued rise in inflation has led to further declines in real wages in aggregate.
On March 22, 2022, The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution hosted a webcast entitled “Tracking the Recovery From the COVID-19 Recession” that took stock of the state of the economy, the state of public health, and the relationship between the two.
Using new data from the American Community Survey, Lauren Bauer, Veronica Clevenstine, and Moriah Macklin look into why some same-gender relationship households have higher median incomes than opposite-gender relationship households.
To conclude the year, Veronica Clevenstine, Wendy Edelberg, Moriah Macklin, Beatriz Rivera, Winnie Yee present a month-by-month journey in figure through The Hamilton Project's research, analysis, and policy proposals.
In this analysis Lauren Bauer and Wendy Edelberg identify when and which people are returning to labor market and explore how changing participation rates by different groups is contributing to the labor market recovery.
"In this analysis, Wendy Edelberg examines the economic factors driving the recent elevation in inflation levels, identifying extraordinary pandemic-related changes in consumer demand and issues in supply-chains that have impacted prices in the core goods sector, in particular."
Lauren Bauer, Veronica Clevenstine, Wendy Edelberg, Elisabeth Raczek, and Winnie Yee explore how the decision whether to enroll in school or work during the pandemic have played out through the 2020-21 academic school year and the summer of 2021.
Lauren Bauer, Krista Ruffini, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach offer a preliminary analysis of the effect of the Pandemic EBT program on food hardship to date.
Wendy Edelberg and Louise Sheiner delineate how the economy is likely to suffer lasting and avoidable damage should the debt limit bind.
Stephanie Aaronson, Mitchell Barnes, and Wendy Edelberg discuss the benefits and potential limitations of promoting a tight labor market to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in unemployment rates.
In a new analysis from The Hamilton Project, Lauren Bauer explores how the 2021 revision of the Thrifty Food plan will support families currently facing food insecurity and economic hardship.
From May-December 2020, working moms with kid(s) 12 and under spent more weekday hours on child care than working.
In a new blog, Ryan Nunn outlines reforms to occupational licensing and non-compete contracts that would boost labor market competition and benefit workers.
In a new blog, Elizabeth Lee, Sophia Mariam, Este Griffith, Robert Greenstein explore the role of social insurance and highlight policy proposals for reforms that would make vital and lasting improvements to the U.S. social insurance system.