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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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Seven economic facts about prime-age labor force participation
This set of economic facts takes stock of the labor market through May 2025, paying particular attention to prime-age labor force participation.
Employment & Wages
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Proposed SNAP cuts would permanently undermine recession readiness and responsiveness
Economic Security & Inequality
Social Insurance
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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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Work requirements penalize workers in volatile occupations
Employment & Wages
Social Insurance
Tax Policy & Budget
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The macroeconomic implications of Biden’s $1.9 trillion fiscal package
Wendy Edelberg and Louise Sheiner estimate the economic effects of the Biden administration's proposed $1.9 trillion fiscal package.
How to increase growth while raising revenue: Reforming the corporate tax code
A proposal by Jason Furman offers several reforms to the corporate tax code to improve the tax base and increase tax rates. This combination makes it possible …
Raising revenue with a progressive value-added tax
Retirement and health-care commitments necessitate steadily rising spending at a time when the federal government is already missing other opportunities to mak…
The economics of federal tax policy
How the government raises tax revenue has critical implications for economic prosperity. Moss, Nunn, and Shambaugh provide a framework for assessing various ta…
Taxing wealth
The United States has high levels of income and wealth inequality, in part because of shortcomings in how we tax concentrated income and wealth. To raise reven…
Tackling the tax code: Efficient and equitable ways to raise revenue
Taxation is an enduring focus of economic policy debates. This book presents a series of policy options, authored by leading tax experts and backed by rigorous…
Leveling the playing field between inherited income and income from work through an inheritance tax
One driver of high inequality and low intergenerational mobility is the inefficient and inequitable way that inheritances are currently taxed. In this proposal…
Tax reform for progressivity: A pragmatic approach
In the coming decades, federal spending will need to grow just to enable the government to continue to provide the services it does today. Natasha Sarin, Lawre…
