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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.
Policy Proposals
Artificial intelligence and algorithmic exclusion
In this proposal, Catherine Tucker makes the case for including algorithmic exclusion, defined as failure or harm arising from insufficient input data, in AI policies and regulations.
Technology & Innovation
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Event recap—Addressing threats to the SNAP program
Economic Security & Inequality
Social Insurance
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Tariffs are a particularly bad way to raise revenue
Effective Government
Healthy Economy
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SNAP cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will significantly impair recession response
Economic Security & Inequality
Recessions
Social Insurance
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The damage done by recessions and how to respond
Automatic stabilizers are designed to expand during an economic downturn and contract during an expansion—providing timely and temporary fiscal stimulus. Boush…
How stabilizing has fiscal policy been?
Louise Sheiner and Michael Ng investigate the cyclicality of fiscal policy over the past 40 years, finding that fiscal policy has been increasingly countercycl…
Addressing modern debtors’ prisons with graduated economic sanctions that depend on ability to pay
The use of monetary sanctions to punish crimes ranging from minor traffic or public order offenses to the most serious felonies is ubiquitous in the United Sta…
Nine facts about state and local policy
Policy debates often focus only on major decisions made in Washington, DC. But for many Americans, the decisions made much closer to home have just as large, i…
Labor market considerations for a national job guarantee
In this framing paper, Ryan Nunn, Jimmy O'Donnell, and Jay Shambaugh evaluate the potential labor market impacts of several employment support policies, wi…
The geography of prosperity
Ryan Nunn, Jana Parsons, and Jay Shambaugh investigate the factors that have created concentrated prosperity in the United States while leaving many places beh…
Place-based policies for shared economic growth
For a century, the progress our nation made toward realizing broadly shared economic growth gave our economy much of its unparalleled strength. However, for th…
Development economics meets the challenges of lagging US areas
Development economics research has made substantial progress in addressing poverty, poor health and education, and other problems of struggling areas. In this …
