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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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Reforming regulation: A proposal to end unsound cost-benefit analysis requirements for tax and transfer rules
Greg Leiserson offers a proposal to streamline and accelerate rulemaking and improve the quality of the rulemaking process.
Effective Government
Tax Policy & Budget
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Who will care for an aging America? Takeaways from The Hamilton Project’s long-term care event
Health Care
Immigration
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Who enters and who exits direct care jobs in long-term care settings?
Employment & Wages
Health Care
Policy Proposals
A direct care worker visa policy to support the aging US population
Employment & Wages
Immigration
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Reducing food insecurity among households with children is still a challenge for the United States
Food insecurity is associated with negative educational outcomes and declining physical health in children. In this blog post, Lauren Bauer documents the curre…
Increasing SNAP purchasing power reduces food insecurity and improves child outcomes
SNAP purchasing power varies significantly with location, leaving some families vulnerable to food insecurity and negative child outcomes. In this blog post, H…
Children’s exposure to food insecurity is still worse than it was before the Great Recession
Lauren Bauer and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach provide an update on the state of food insecurity in the U.S., noting that despite economic growth across the coun…
Penny wise and pound foolish: Proposed SNAP budget cuts will diminish positive outcomes
In President Trump’s 2019 budget, he proposes changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that would significantly reduce the efficiency an…
Increasing the economic security of older women
Popular commentary often points to the lower lifetime earnings and longer expected life spans of women relative to men as a reason to be especially concerned a…
Modernizing US labor standards for 21st century families
Women now make up almost half the U.S. workforce, and more than half of the U.S. population. Despite the central role women play in the economy, our labor laws…
The 51%: Driving growth through women’s economic participation
The U.S. economy will not operate at its full potential unless government and employers remove impediments to full participation by women in the labor market. …
A national paid parental leave policy for the United States
Despite widespread public support for paid parental leave, the United States is the only industrialized country without a national policy providing mothers wit…
