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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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Policy Proposals October 8, 2020

Building tomorrow’s workforce today: Twin proposals for the future of learning, opportunity, and work

In this proposal, Richard Arum and Mitchell Stevens propose twin federal government initiatives to incentivize innovation in instructional delivery throughout …
Posts October 8, 2020

Major decisions: What graduates earn over their lifetimes

For many years, The Hamilton Project has produced data interactives that help young people make decisions regarding their education and careers. We have update…
Posts October 1, 2020

Teen disengagement is on the rise

In this analysis, we present two data interactives that let you explore how trends in teen labor force participation and school enrollment during the academic …
Papers July 30, 2020

The effect of Pandemic EBT on measures of food hardship

In this blog post, Lauren Bauer, Abigail Pitts, Krista Ruffini, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach find that Pandemic EBT reduced food hardship experienced by low…
Papers October 3, 2019

Labor force nonparticipation: Trends, causes, and policy solutions

In this strategy paper, The Hamilton Project explores the decline in U.S. LFPR as well as patterns by age, gender, race, and education. We then assess potentia…
Posts September 10, 2019

What are the factors that affect learning at your school?

A new data interactive by The Hamilton Project—which includes data for every school and zip code in the U.S.—examines factors that affect learning at local ele…
Papers September 5, 2019

Employment, education, and the time use of American youth

The Hamilton Project finds that changing employment and school enrollment patterns have contributed to declining labor force participation among youth, aged 16…
Posts July 2, 2019

All school and no work becoming the norm for American teens

The latest analysis from The Hamilton Project explores how teenagers (16–19-year-olds) have shifted away from working or seeking work and the impact this chang…
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