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"On a national level, rapid spikes to the unemployment rate can serve as a warning sign even if the unemployment rate is historically low, according to Ryan Nunn, policy director of the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution think tank."

"Teens are less likely to work part-time while in school and also less likely to work over the summer, according to a study by the Hamilton Project and Brookings Institution. 'High school has become more intense,' said Lauren Bauer, a co-author of the study."

“Ryan Nunn, the policy director at the Hamilton Project, said ‘we are back to zero’ on the Sahm Indicator, which measures quick unemployment rate changes at the national level and is often used as a ‘pretty good diagnostic for a recession.’ ‘That's a relatively low level for the indicator. It's not giving us any evidence that a recession is underway,’ he told ABC News.”

“In a new study published by The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution, we found that some of the decline in labor force participation can be attributed to either the aging population heading toward retirement or young people who are increasingly at school rather than work.”

“These types of violations have been on the rise, said Ryan Nunn, a fellow in economics studies with the Brookings Institution, adding that they’ve contributed to the steep decline in union membership over recent decades.”

"However, despite these facts, wage stagnation continues to be a real problem. In a piece for Harvard Business Review, the Hamilton Project’s Jay Shambaugh and Ryan Nunn explained that there are three primary reasons why workers’ wages rise: For wages to grow on a sustained basis, workers’ productivity must rise, meaning they must steadily produce more per hour, often with the help of new technology or capital…"

" Poorer neighborhoods are increasingly cut off, socially and geographically, from the sources of economic prosperity. Almost all (90%) of the poorest counties in 1980 were still at the bottom in 2016, according to research from the Hamilton Project at Brookings."

"A 45-year long decline in union membership can be also directly tied to rising income inequality and low wages, according to a new report from the Hamilton Project, which is part of the Brookings Institution think tank."

"Crawford’s thesis came to mind as I read a new report from [the Hamilton Project at] The Brookings Institution: 'All School and No Work Becoming the Norm for American Teens.' While underscoring the striking decline in teen participation in the workforce, the report offers a balanced assessment of the impact of that decline on teen development."

“Studies, including the Hamilton Project from the Brookings Institution, show inequities students face have direct effects on their academic performance and attendance.”

“More unmarried women are in the workforce than ever before, according to research by Morgan Stanley using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. About 80% of single women are working or actively seeking employment, according to the Brookings Institution’s Lauren Bauer, and in 2018, single women made up 45% of working women.”

“With districts nationwide able to access more data on chronic absenteeism, the report also highlights a new interactive map by the [Hamilton Project at the] Brookings Institution, which highlights school-by-school absence rates across the country alongside community factors that could affect learning, such as student discipline rates.”

“The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution created the resource with multiple data sources, including the American Community Survey, Civil Rights Data Collection and state school report cards. Teacher attendance rates, suspension and expulsion rates, teacher-student ratios and poverty rates are among the indicators available along with chronic absenteeism rates.”

“Lauren Bauer, economics fellow at The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution, said the best use of the interactive map is to put a school in context and look for outliers.”

“‘A short path from poverty is employment, to work sufficient hours with sufficient wages,’ said Lauren Bauer, fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution…‘It’s pretty consistent that about a third of the people in the U.S. who are poor are children,’ Bauer said. ‘They’re eligible to receive benefits, but they’re nevertheless living in circumstances that are preventable with more income.’”

““The shift toward higher school enrollment rates means that youth today are investing more in their human capital,” [Hamilton Project at the] Brookings Institution researchers wrote. “To the extent that American youth are spending more time in school, they may be increasing their prospects for good labor market outcomes later in life.”

“‘That decline "may be a central reason for stagnant wages and growing income inequality in the U.S.,’ Axios reports, citing a new study by the Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project.”

“Why it matters: Half of Americans say the decline of unions has had a negative impact on workers, according to a Pew Research Center survey. And it may be a central reason for stagnant wages and growing income inequality in the U.S., according to a new study by the Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project.”

“Researchers at The Hamilton Project, a policy group at The Brookings Institution, conclude that the dramatic drop in US private-sector union density, which fell from 24.2% in 1973 to 6.4% today, reduced American workers’ bargaining power and contributed to growing economic inequality.”

“The efforts of BIW and other Maine employers align with the national employment picture, said Ryan Nunn, policy director at the Hamilton Project, an economic research center at the Brookings Institution… ‘As we get into this situation of much tighter labor markets, employers need to look more broadly for workers and need to be more open to accepting workers who are less immediately prepared for work and doing that training themselves,’ he said.”

“‘Places with higher costs of living tend to also be higher earnings places and in some instances they are places with stronger amenities,’ said Ryan Nunn, policy director at The Hamilton Project in Washington. ‘It’s not as simple as high cost of living is bad.’”

“‘Low-income households, which are more likely to be headed by women, spend 82% of their budget on basic needs like housing, food, transportation, health care and clothing,’ said Lauren Bauer, fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution.

“Need further proof that stagnant wages and rising inequality can be directly traced to a sharp drop in union membership in corporate America? Look no further than a comprehensive new report from the Hamilton Project at Brookings, entitled ‘The Shift in Private Sector Union Membership: Explanations and Effects.’”

“‘There are more than 400,000 people in jail whom a judge would have allowed to be released had they been able to post bail,’ it says. Ryan Nunn, one of the report’s authors, told us the 400,000 number ‘is definitely a ballpark estimate.’”