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The Hamilton Project produces and commissions policy proposals and analyses to promote broad-based economic growth by embracing a significant role for well-designed government policies and public investment.
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The Hamilton Project: 2025 in figures
These nine data visualizations illustrate The Hamilton Project's work in 2025 on key economic policy challenges and developments.
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Learning curves: Post-COVID learning trajectories differ by the grade a student was in when the pandemic hit
Education
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Artificial intelligence and algorithmic exclusion
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Event recap—Addressing threats to the SNAP program
Economic Security & Inequality
Social Insurance
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Helping women to succeed in higher education: Supporting student-parents with child care
Women have surpassed men in college enrollment. This trend is particularly pronounced among nontraditional students, including part-time and older students—two…
Putting your major to work: Career paths after college
In this economic analysis, The Hamilton Project explores how college majors and occupations interact to produce a wide range of labor market outcomes. Differen…
Where will your degree take you? Career paths after college
In this blog post, we examine our economic analysis and interactive tool, "Putting Your Major to Work: Career Paths after College," exploring how college major…
A risk sharing proposal for student loans
In this paper, the authors propose a risk-sharing system for the student loan program. Institutions with low repayment rates, as measured by a new cohort-based…
Increasing college completion with a federal higher education matching grant
The federal government largely invests in higher education through aid to students that aims to lower the effective price of college. However, Deming finds tha…
Eight economic facts on higher education
In this set of eight facts, the Hamilton Project offers evidence of the economic value of a postsecondary education. These facts document who is enrolling in a…
Improving college and career outcomes of low-performing high school students
In this proposal, the author shows that many students who perform at or below average in high school are not prepared for college and do not attain postseconda…
Understanding and addressing teacher shortages in the United States
While there is a popular perception of a national teacher shortage, the authors demonstrate that teacher shortages are in fact localized and subject-specific. …
