Events
THP events bring together key policymakers, academic experts, and business leaders to address our nation’s most pressing economic challenges.
Taking on tax: Lessons from the 2021 expansion of the Child Tax Credit
On January 30, The Hamilton Project at Brookings hosted a virtual event focused on the effects of the 2021 expansion of the Child Tax Credit.
How would across-the-board tariffs create chaos in 2025?
On October 17, The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution and the Peterson Institute for International Economics hosted a virtual event to discuss the potential economic effects of tariffs.
Taking on tax: Modernizing partnership taxation
On September 25, The Hamilton Project and The Tax Law Center at NYU Law hosted a virtual event on partnership tax reform.
Explore Past Events
Economic growth strategies for developing countries in an era of global uncertainty
Together with the Commission on Growth & Development, The Hamilton Project hosted a policy roundtable on the role of economic growth in reducing poverty in dev…
Easing the traffic jam through congestion pricing
David Lewis outlined his new Hamilton Project paper on the merits and potential barriers to congestion pricing as a tool for combating urban gridlock at an eve…
Addressing the foreclosure crisis: A Hamilton Project policy discussion
The Hamilton Project hosted a conversation on proposed policy responses to the mortgage-foreclosure problem. Many Americans now owe more on their mortgages tha…
If, when, how? Prospects for fiscal stimulus in the US economy
The Hamilton Project released a briefing paper and convened a discussion on what economists know about fiscal stimulus — if it is appropriate, when should it b…
Facilitating and rewarding work
The Project hosted a two-part forum on ways to encourage, facilitate, and reward work. Jason Furman provided an overview of a strategy paper, which suggested a…
A climate of change: Economic approaches to reforming energy and protecting the environment
The Hamilton Project hosted a forum highlighting a new strategy paper and two new discussion papers on how to best design market mechanisms to reduce greenhous…
Recent financial market disruptions: Implications for the economy and American families
The Project convened a discussion with experts to help frame the challenges currently facing housing and the financial markets: where we are, what it means for…
A new social contract
The Hamilton Project partnered with Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, for a luncheon discussion on the development of a social contract for all Americans. In a gl…
