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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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Six facts about union density in the United States
This set of economic facts describes trends in union density in the U.S. through 2025 in the public and private sector, among workers, and by state.
Employment & Wages
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Earned paid time off should be a basic right
Economic Security & Inequality
Employment & Wages
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A primer on SNAP work requirements
Economic Security & Inequality
Employment & Wages
Social Insurance
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Event recap—Reimagining homeowners insurance amid growing climate risk
Energy & Climate
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A strategy for US natural gas exports
Michael Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations poses a framework for regulators to determine if exporting natural gas is in the public interest, arguing the …
Leveling the playing field for natural gas in transportation
Domestic natural gas is both cleaner and more affordable than oil, making it an attractive and practical alternative. In a new Hamilton Project paper, Christop…
Modernizing bonding requirements for natural gas producers
To ensure funds are available for clean-up when natural gas accidents occur, Lucas Davis of UC Berkeley explores new approaches to bonding requirements for pro…
Energy policy opportunities and continuing challenges in the presence of increased supplies of natural gas and petroleum
This Hamilton Project framing paper summarizes recent changes in the energy sector, and lays out five principles for shaping energy and environmental policy.
The role of oil and gas in driving job growth
The Hamilton Project explores what increased domestic natural gas and oil production means for the American energy sector, the environment, and employment.
A strategy for America’s energy future: Illuminating energy’s full costs
America’s energy choices are built on the prices we see at the pump and our utility bills. Yet these prices mask the social costs arising from those energy cho…
Promoting clean energy in the American power sector
Joseph E. Aldy proposes a national clean energy standard that would lower carbon dioxide emissions by as much as 60 percent relative to 2005 levels over twenty…
An energy technology corporation will improve the federal government’s efforts to accelerate energy innovation
John M. Deutch proposes a series of best practices for government support of U.S. technology demonstration and a new institution, the Energy Technology Corpora…
