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On November 20, 2019,  Hamilton Project Director Jay Shambaugh testified before the U.S. Joint Economic Committee during the hearing, "Connecting More People to Work". 

“The report by Brookings’ Hamilton Project, “Employment, education, and the time use of American youth,” said: ‘The decline is largest among teens [ages 16 to 19], whose labor force participation rate fell from roughly half to a third of the population from 2000 to 2018.’”

“In an opinion piece for the New York Times last spring, Will Wilkinson of the Niskanen Center examined the “vitality index,” a statistic created by the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Project to combine various indicators of wellbeing—like income and employment and poverty and life expectancy—for every county in America.”

“Jay Shambaugh, director of the Hamilton Project (has argued), ‘Knowing that in as close to real time as possible is a huge advantage over waiting, say, for Congress to act over a six- to eight-month period.’”

“Policy makers need to know when a recession has begun before they can act to prop up the economy, said Jay Shambaugh, director of the Hamilton Project, a liberal think tank that included Ms. Sahm’s proposal in a book this year on preparing for the next downturn.”

“In the end, public money for risky technology catalyzed private success: The government collected more than $780 million in interest payments, led to breakouts like Tesla, and leveraged massive new private investments in clean energy such as private utility-scale photovoltaic solar projects. That’s the argument behind the latest paper on effective public investments by Jay Shambaugh, director of The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution.”

“States have two options to deal with labor shortages, said Ryan Nunn, policy director at the Hamilton Project, an economic policy initiative of the Brookings Institution.”

“A University of Southern California study documented that immigrants increase home values in sagging markets. The Hamilton Project of the Brookings Institute found that immigrants lower crime rates.”

“But California Air Resources Board Chair Mary Nichols also questioned the Justice Department's choice of venue. She noted they filed it in federal court in Fresno, an agriculture-heavy city in the Central Valley that is more moderate than coastal California. ‘The timing of this is a little peculiar,’ she said at an event at Stanford University [co-hosted by The Hamilton Project and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research]. ‘They filed it in the Eastern District of California, which is in Fresno, which I think they probably think is a friendly jurisdiction.’”

“’It makes sense to change other policies after we have a price on carbon,’ Williams writes in the study released at a climate change policy forum sponsored by the Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.”

“California Air Resources Board Chairwoman Mary Nichols questioned the administration’s argument, saying the case appeared to have ‘absolutely no legal basis,’ as the underlying agreement ‘is not a treaty.’ ‘Many states have arrangements with other states and countries on a whole variety of topics that we work on together,’ she said during a climate event at Stanford University [co-hosted by The Hamilton Project and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research].”

“But, as a new study from the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the Hamilton Project (an economic think tank at the Brookings Institute) shows, the cost of doing nothing about climate change will be much higher. ‘Climate change will affect agricultural productivity, mortality, crime, energy use, storm activity, and coastal inundation,’ write the study’s authors.”

“Mary Nichols, chair of the California Air Resources Board, was scathing in her criticism of the suit. Speaking after her keynote address at a climate policy forum hosted by the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, she said her ‘first thought was that it was a joke.’…”

“Beyond threats to public health and the environment, climate change poses a danger to the economy, especially for those who have the least.’ Those are the findings of a new analysis from the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the Hamilton Project, a centrist economic think tank of the Brookings Institution.”

“Jay Shambaugh of Brookings [and the Hamilton Project] wrote that, ‘restoring the real value of the minimum wage and overtime threshold’ could help revitalize wage growth.”

“Data portability is a mechanism to increase competition, and competition is typically beneficial for consumers. Joshua Gans (University of Toronto) wrote a report for the Brookings Center’s Hamilton Project on the ways in which data portability benefits consumers.”

“Ryan Nunn, the policy director with the Hamilton Project, an economic policy center at the Brookings Institution, said those looking for work have an advantage. ‘“It’s worth pointing out that this is a great thing for workers,” he said. “It’s easier to find new jobs and receive wage increases.’”

“However, Ryan Nunn, policy director at the Hamilton Project, disagrees with the premise of a worker ‘shortage.’ Speaking on MetroNews Talkline, he maintained the workers are there, but employers aren’t yet willing to increase compensation enough to attract them.”

“A recent paper by the centrist Hamilton Project concluded that ‘unions lift wages, reduce inequality, and shape how work is organized.’”

“Federal Reserve economist Claudia Sahm has proposed [in a Hamilton Project report] automatic government payments directly to individuals when the 3-month average unemployment rate rises 0.50 percentage points above the low from the previous year. She picked that metric because every time it has happened since the 1970s the economy has gone into contraction. The indicator currently shows a reading of 0%, suggesting the economy looks stable.”

“States have two options to deal with labor shortages, said Ryan Nunn, policy director at the Hamilton Project, an economic policy initiative of the Brookings Institution. The first is a ‘zero-sum game’ in which they compete with other states to attract the same workers. The second is a ‘positive sum’ response: making existing workers more productive by giving them new skills, and training new workers drawn from disadvantaged groups like prisoners and dropouts.”

"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.”