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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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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.
Economic Security & Inequality
Social Insurance
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The SNAP state cost-shift policy leaves the program’s existence to chance
Economic Security & Inequality
Social Insurance
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Event recap—Taking on tax: The future of corporate taxation
Tax Policy & Budget
Policy Proposals
Toward a uniform business tax system: Examining proposals to tax large pass-through entities as corporations
Tax Policy & Budget
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Ten facts about COVID-19 and the US economy
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented the United States with a set of unique public health and economic challenges. Economically, the crisis has negatively affec…
Essential workers during COVID-19: At risk and lacking union representation
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of essential workers are confronting new public health hazards in their workplace. Yet because of mass de-unioni…
Unemployment insurance extended benefits will lapse too soon without policy changes
In this blog post, researchers show that there is room for Congress to improve the triggers under current law that turn on and maintain the Unemployment Insura…
The initial impact of COVID-19 on labor market outcomes across groups and the potential for permanent scarring
The economic damages of the COVID-19 pandemic are not being well captured by current labor market statistics that show both permanent damage to employment rela…
The nature of work after the COVID crisis: Too few low-wage jobs
David Autor and Elisabeth Reynolds ask whether the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the conventional wisdom about automation and inequality in the United States o…
Who are the potentially misclassified in the employment report?
Since the March Employment Situation, the number of respondents reporting as "employed but absent from work due to other reasons" has risen as a share of the l…
Examining options to boost essential worker wages during the pandemic
In this analysis, Ryan Nunn, Jimmy O'Donnell, and Jay Shambaugh consider several policy options that could help boost workers’ wages. The authors also prov…
Incomes have crashed. How much has unemployment insurance helped?
The rapid contraction of the economy this spring has shattered records for the speed of onset of a recession. One of the most economically important pieces of …
