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The Hamilton Project produces and commissions policy proposals and analyses to promote broad-based economic growth by embracing a significant role for well-designed government policies and public investment.
Policy Proposals
Reforming regulation: A proposal to end unsound cost-benefit analysis requirements for tax and transfer rules
Greg Leiserson offers a proposal to streamline and accelerate rulemaking and improve the quality of the rulemaking process.
Effective Government
Tax Policy & Budget
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Who will care for an aging America? Takeaways from The Hamilton Project’s long-term care event
Health Care
Immigration
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Who enters and who exits direct care jobs in long-term care settings?
Employment & Wages
Health Care
Policy Proposals
A direct care worker visa policy to support the aging US population
Employment & Wages
Immigration
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Who enters and who exits direct care jobs in long-term care settings?
An analysis from Krista Ruffini, Karen Shen, and Yulya Truskinovsky examines the high rates of turnover among direct care workers.
A direct care worker visa policy to support the aging US population
Tara Watson offers a proposal for a temporary employment-based visa, the H-1D, for direct care workers.
Six facts about union density in the United States
This set of economic facts describes trends in union density in the U.S. through 2025 in the public and private sector, among workers, and by state.
Earned paid time off should be a basic right
Nine out of 10 Americans support the idea that all workers should have the right to take paid time off from their jobs. So why is getting paid time off so hard…
A primer on SNAP work requirements (2025)
An explainer on work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP; formerly known as the Food Stamp Program) summarizes the research on…
A primer on SNAP work requirements
Lauren Bauer and Chloe N. East review the literature on SNAP work requirements and answer frequently asked questions.
Event recap—AI + work: Understanding AI’s impact on the labor market
On March 10, the Budget Lab at Yale, The Hamilton Project, and Peterson Institute for International Economics hosted an event on AI’s impact on the labor marke…
Research on AI and the labor market is still in the first inning
Jed Kolko reviews a selection of recent research on AI and the labor market and finds that “all the important questions about AI’s effects on the labor market …
