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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.
Papers
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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Facilitating shared appreciation mortgages to prevent housing crashes and affordability crises
This paper argues that development of shared appreciation mortgage (SAM) markets in the United States would moderate the impending decline in homeownership and…
An opt-out home mortgage system
This paper develops a new framework for understanding the mortgage markets based on behavioral economic insights and proposes a ‘sticky’ opt-out mortgage syste…
Air support: Creating a safer and more reliable air traffic control system
Dorothy Robyn argues that there are fundamental problems with the way the federal government manages the air traffic control system and proposes policy changes…
An economic strategy for investing in America’s infrastructure
Manasi Deshpande and Douglas W. Elmendorf argue that America now has the opportunity to channel public concern and frustration into a national infrastructure s…
Pay-as-you-drive auto insurance: A simple way to reduce driving-related harms and increase equity
This paper argues that the current lump-sum pricing of auto insurance is inefficient and inequitable. It proposes and evaluates a simple alternative: pay-as-yo…
America’s traffic congestion problem: Toward a framework for national reform
David Lewis argues that congestion pricing would reduce the economic costs from congestion and guide transportation resources to their best use, and would gene…
Weighing alternative policies for tackling the mortgage mess
Without government action, mortgage foreclosures will rise steeply for the next several years, argues Doug Elmendorf. He analyzes the wide range of proposals f…
