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Debt ceiling brinksmanship has clear negative effects on taxpayers
Debt limit brinksmanship is already impacting Treasury securities. The increase in interest rates represents a cost to taxpayers and a lack of confidence among investors.
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Has COVID disrupted the postsecondary pipeline?
Lauren Bauer, Veronica Clevenstine, Wendy Edelberg, Elisabeth Raczek, and Winnie Yee explore how the decision whether to enroll in school or work during the pa…
Increasing Federal Investment in Children’s Early Care and Education to Raise Quality, Access, and Affordability
In this proposal, Elizabeth Davis and Aaron Sojourner of the University of Minnesota propose an ambitious vision to increase federal funding for Early Childhoo…
Higher Education’s Reopening Decisions Affected the Most Vulnerable Students
In this analysis, Kristen Broady, Eliana Buckner, Jennifer Umanzor, and Sarah Wheaton find that while nearly every school in our sample offered in-person exper…
Major Decisions: What Graduates Earn Over Their Lifetimes
For many years, The Hamilton Project has produced data interactives that help young people make decisions regarding their education and careers. We have update…
Building Tomorrow’s Workforce Today: Twin Proposals for the Future of Learning, Opportunity, and Work
In this proposal, Richard Arum and Mitchell Stevens propose twin federal government initiatives to incentivize innovation in instructional delivery throughout …
Teen Disengagement is on the Rise
In this analysis, we present two data interactives that let you explore how trends in teen labor force participation and school enrollment during the academic …
The Effect of Pandemic EBT on Measures of Food Hardship
In this blog post, Lauren Bauer, Abigail Pitts, Krista Ruffini, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach find that Pandemic EBT reduced food hardship experienced by low…
Labor Force Nonparticipation: Trends, Causes, and Policy Solutions
In this strategy paper, The Hamilton Project explores the decline in U.S. LFPR as well as patterns by age, gender, race, and education. We then assess potentia…
