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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 changing demographics of business ownership
Gaps in business ownership have shrunk with a rise in Black and Hispanic entrepreneurship in recent years.
Economic Security & Inequality
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Event recap—Securing the safety net for working-age adults
Economic Security & Inequality
Social Insurance
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The safety net should work for working-age adults
Economic Security & Inequality
Social Insurance
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The austere US safety net for poor, non-elderly adults who are not raising children and do not receive disability benefits
Economic Security & Inequality
Social Insurance
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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…
15 Ways to Rethink the Federal Budget, Introduction & eBook Download
As policymakers work to find solutions to reduce the federal budget deficit, The Hamilton Project presents 15 pragmatic, evidenced-based proposals that would b…
The Importance of Unemployment Insurance for American Families and the Economy
About two million U.S. residents stand to lose extended unemployment insurance benefits next month when legislation that temporarily increased how long people …
Policies to Reduce High-Tenured Displaced Workers’ Earnings Losses Through Retraining
After being displaced from long-tenured jobs, workers often experience persistent, significant earnings losses. New research suggests that retraining in certai…
Supporting Work: A Proposal for Modernizing the U.S. Disability Insurance System
The Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program has failed to support the ongoing employment and economic self-sufficiency of workers with disabilities…
Improving the Measurement of Poverty
The Hamilton Project held a policy forum and released a discussion paper by Rebecca Blank and Mark Greenberg on the need for a new national poverty measure tha…
Getting More from Low-Income Housing Assistance
Edgar Olsen examines shortfalls with the current system of low-income housing assistance and proposes a transition to an entitlement housing assistance program…
