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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
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Artificial intelligence and algorithmic exclusion
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Event recap—Addressing threats to the SNAP program
Economic Security & Inequality
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Supporting low-income workers through refundable child-care credits
In this policy memo, James P. Ziliak proposes converting the federal Child and Dependent Care Credit from a nonrefundable tax credit to a refundable one, cappi…
The importance of unemployment insurance for American families & the economy: Take 2
In the absence of congressional action to extend unemployment insurance, 1.3 million Americans will immediately lose their benefits on December 28th. In this m…
A dozen facts about America’s struggling lower-middle class
Many American families whose incomes are not low enough to officially place them in poverty live in economically precarious situations. This struggling lower-m…
Strengthening SNAP for a more food-secure, healthy America
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—formerly known as the Food Stamp Program—is an essential part of America’s social safety net. Diane Schanz…
Hunger and the important role of SNAP as an American safety net
In this economic analysis, The Hamilton Project focuses on two critical issues related to SNAP: (1) the widespread existence of both food insecurity and obesit…
New approaches to promoting college access for more Americans
The role of education in improving social mobility is well-known, and new evidence identifies promising ways to help more low-income students improve their edu…
An evidence-based path to disability insurance reform
Jeffrey Liebman and Jack Smalligan propose a path to improve our disability insurance system, through demonstration projects and administrative changes, that c…
Restructuring cost sharing and supplemental insurance for Medicare
Cost sharing under the Medicare Parts A & B programs is both variable and uncapped, with an overall structure that is hard to rationalize. Jonathan Gruber prop…
