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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.
Employment & Wages
Health Care
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A direct care worker visa policy to support the aging US population
Employment & Wages
Immigration
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Rethinking Medicare home health
Health Care
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Progress and stagnation: US poverty, deep poverty, and the safety net, 1967–2023
Economic Security & Inequality
Social Insurance
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September 29, 2026
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.
Policy Proposals
September 29, 2026
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.
Papers
September 29, 2026
Rethinking Medicare home health
Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, Yunan Ji, and Neale Mahoney examine the design of the Medicare home health benefit. They assess the program’s objectives and offe…
Papers
September 14, 2026
Progress and stagnation: US poverty, deep poverty, and the safety net, 1967–2023
Robert Greenstein and Danilo Trisi examine poverty, deep poverty, and the poverty gap in the U.S. over time.
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August 25, 2026
The SNAP state cost-shift policy leaves the program’s existence to chance
Lauren Bauer and Diane Schanzenbach find that the SNAP cost shift to states will fluctuate unpredictably and considerably from year to year solely based on ran…
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June 22, 2026
Event recap—Taking on tax: The future of corporate taxation
On June 16, The Hamilton Project, the Tax Law Center at NYU Law, and the Tax Policy Center hosted an event on business tax reform.
Policy Proposals
June 16, 2026
Toward a uniform business tax system: Examining proposals to tax large pass-through entities as corporations
Miles Johnson, Thalia T. Spinrad, Kathleen Bryant, and Chye-Ching Huang analyze a proposal to tax large pass-through businesses as C corporations.
Policy Proposals
June 16, 2026
The future of US international corporate tax reform
Kimberly Clausing proposes to strengthen and reform U.S. corporate taxation while better aligning U.S. corporate tax policy efforts with the potential of inter…
