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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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Tracking National Labor Relations Board actions through its administrative data
Olivia Howard, Lauren Bauer, Celine McNicholas, and Margaret Poydock use administrative data from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to assess the number of cases the NLRB closed, the reason those cases closed, and the number of new cases filed in 2025, compared to recent years.
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Economic Facts
Seven economic facts about prime-age labor force participation
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Proposed SNAP cuts would permanently undermine recession readiness and responsiveness
Economic Security & Inequality
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Will the reconciliation bill’s Child Tax Credit changes leave out children in low-income working families?
Economic Security & Inequality
Tax Policy & Budget
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Increasing federal investment in children’s early care and education to raise quality, access, and affordability
Elizabeth Davis and Aaron Sojourner propose an ambitious vision to increase federal funding for early childhood care and education (ECE).
A plan to reform the unemployment insurance system in the United States
Arindrajit Dube offers a plan to reform and modernize the unemployment insurance (UI) system to reflect and align with the challenges of the current labor mark…
Bolstering the housing safety net: The promise of automatic stabilizers
Robert Collinson, Ingrid Gould Ellen, and Benjamin Keys propose a plan to support homeowners and renters to stabilize households and housing markets during fut…
Rethinking social insurance: Policies to protect workers and families
Wendy Edelberg and Stephanie Lu examine the benefits of social insurance programs and recommend improving automatic stabilizers so that ad hoc policymaking in …
The Hamilton Project: 2020 in figures
Alexandra Contreras, Elizabeth Lee, and Stephanie Lu present a month-by-month journey in figures through The Hamilton Project’s research, analysis, and policy …
There are too many ways to lose unemployment compensation
With the help of an interactive, Lauren Bauer, Wendy Edelberg, and Stephanie Lu discuss the negative consequences of allowing unemployment benefits to lapse at…
Raise the SNAP maximum benefit to reduce food insecurity
In a new video, Lauren Bauer explains the problem of food security in America and avenues for addressing it.
Why extend Pandemic EBT? When schools are closed, many fewer eligible children receive meals.
Between 9 and 17 million children live in a household where the adults say that their children do not have enough to eat, and they do not have the resources to…
