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“‘What we’re seeing is that there is definitely more enrollment is school,’ Jay Shambaugh, Director of The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution and co-author of the study, tells CNBC Make It. ‘You have 16- to 19-year-olds either taking community college classes, in summer school, or [in] overall extra enrichment courses.’”

“Not only do physician assistants in states with more relaxed scope of practice laws tend to earn more compared to their peers in more restrictive states, but the providers are also more efficient, according to health policy experts at the Hamilton Project.”

“‘We used to think summer—everybody is out of school,’ said Jay Shambaugh, a senior fellow in economic studies at Brookings who headed the research project. ‘A lot more high school students are actually in school in the summer than they used to be.’”

“A map in a September 2018 report titled “The Geography of Prosperity” by The Hamilton Project of the Brooking’s Institution vividly portrays what has occurred in Rochester over the last several decades. It shows the change in Vitality Index, a measurement the researchers devised that contains a half-dozen components, with median household income the largest, weighted at 45 percent. From 1980 to 2016, our region ranks in the worst-performing group.”

“International studies indicate that immigration often has a positive influence on the economies of host countries if it is handled well. That was the conclusion of the Hamilton Project (an economic policy initiative at the Brookings Institution, one of the most prominent think tanks in the world, launched in April 2006). The Hamilton studies confirm the role of immigrants in economic growth and the boosting of innovation.”

“‘For a lot of people, the American dream has often been framed as doing better than your parents did. That almost by definition requires some growth,’ said Jay Shambaugh, director of The Hamilton Project and a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution.”

“Indicator 1: The Unemployment Rate. Note: Both unemployment rate and 12-month low are based on three-month rolling averages. Data is as originally reported (before revisions). Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics via [The Hamilton Project at the] Brookings Institution… Which is why right now the unemployment rate should be a source of comfort: Not only is it low, it’s trending down. When that has been the case historically, there has been less than a one in 10 chance of a recession within a year, according to a [Hamilton Project at] Brookings Institution analysis that worked off Ms. Sahm’s measure.”

“According to the Hamilton Project, women and men who turned 65 in 2015 have a 34% and 22% chance of living to 90, respectively. That means some people can expect to spend more years in retirement than they spent saving for retirement."

“Hamilton Project Director Jay Shambaugh comments on the distinct slowdown in the U.S. economy and around the world.”

“‘We used to think summer — everybody is out of school,’ said Jay Shambaugh, a senior fellow in economic studies at Brookings who headed the research project. ‘A lot more high school students are actually in school in the summer than they used to be.’”

“A major, oft-cited 2015 study from The Hamilton Project, an economic policy think tank within the Brookings Institution, showed that metro rail systems in the United States, ‘including heavy rail, such as subways and elevated trains, and light rail,’ operate at a loss.”

The Centers for Disease Control found that the rate of illicit drug use is the same for whites and blacks, while the Hamilton Project found that African Americans are incarcerated for drugs almost three times more often than their white counterparts.”

“Remember your part-time or summer job in high school? Fewer American teenagers will. According to the Hamilton Project, teen labor-force participation has dropped sharply from its peak in 1979. No single factor is behind the change, but you can read about the drivers here.”

“That’s exactly what the Rebuilding Communities Job Subsidies (RCJS) program does, which I have proposed as part of the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Project. RCJS not only promises to be more efficient than a federal jobs guarantee, but also more effective than past attempts like Enterprise Zones—which did relatively little to create jobs among the most disadvantaged.”

“Companies are often interested in tracking their equal pay gap — the one between men and women in the same roles — because if there is one, it’s an obvious sign of outright gender discrimination, said economist Jay Shambaugh, director of The Hamilton Project at The Brookings Institution, a center-left Washington, D.C. think tank.”

“One idea — proposed by Senator Brian Schatz, Democrat of Hawaii, and Representative Mark Pocan, Democrat of Wisconsin — is a federal matching grant to public institutions in states with tuition-free public college. (I proposed a similar idea in a 2017 paper for the Hamilton Project, an economic policy initiative at the Brookings Institution.)”

“Automation isn't behind rising wage inequality and employment polarization. ‘We do find a decline since 1973 in the share of workers earning middle wages. However, we find that a strong increase in the share of workers in the top bin is accompanied by a slight decline in the share in the bottom bin, inconsistent with employment polarization,’ Jennifer Hunt and Ryan Nunn write in a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper.”

“The End of Convergence: From 1960 through 1980 less-affluent counties experienced faster economic growth than their richer peers. This process of convergence has stopped… By The New York Times | Source: The Hamilton Project”

“When it comes to comparing SNAP participation over the past 10 years, the best way to do so is to examine the percentage of the U.S. population that is participating in the program, said Lauren Bauer, fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution. It’s preferable to take the percentage of the population instead of a regular count because the U.S. population is growing.”

“'Teens are working less, both during the summer and during the school year. And what they’re doing instead is they’re using their time really well. Teen enrollment in school during the summer has quadrupled since the ‘80s and has doubled since 2000. And during the school year teens are now much more likely to just be enrolled in school and not trying to juggle both school and work,' Lauren Bauer, a co-author of the study and Brookings Institution economic studies fellow, tells Yahoo Finance’s YFi PM.”

"Research conducted by The Hamilton Project shows that although the most competitive schools have the highest published prices, they also have the lowest out-of-pocket costs for low-income students." 

“Brookings Institute Economic Studies Fellow Lauren Bauer discusses a new study by Brookings that shows the number of teens aged 16 to 19 that participate in the labor market has fallen 35% since 2010.”

“Ryan Nunn with The Brookings Institution says teens these days are spending more time on school, taking advanced classes and summer programs, with an eye toward college and long-term earning potential. Teens were largely pushed out of the job market during the recession a decade ago, and they haven’t really returned to the extent expected, says Nunn.”

“To mitigate the effects of the next recession, it is imperative that Congress begins crafting and enacting thoughtful fiscal policy responses now — before the window of opportunity closes.”