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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.
Policy Proposals
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
Posts
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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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
July 16, 2020
Will competition be another COVID-19 casualty?
The economic crisis in the wake of the pandemic is changing the business landscape, exacerbating concerns about the state of competition in the U.S. economy. …
Papers
July 16, 2020
The nature of work after the COVID crisis: Too few low-wage jobs
David Autor and Elisabeth Reynolds ask whether the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the conventional wisdom about automation and inequality in the United States o…
Papers
July 16, 2020
The initial impact of COVID-19 on labor market outcomes across groups and the potential for permanent scarring
The economic damages of the COVID-19 pandemic are not being well captured by current labor market statistics that show both permanent damage to employment rela…
Papers
July 16, 2020
How the pandemic is changing the economy
The COVID-19 public health crisis, the economic shock triggered by the pandemic, and public policy, business, and individual responses to the pandemic together…
Posts
July 9, 2020
About 14 million children in the US are not getting enough to eat
In this piece, Lauren Bauer presents new evidence that almost 18 percent of children in the US did not have sufficient food as recently as the third week in Ju…
Posts
June 30, 2020
Who are the potentially misclassified in the employment report?
Since the March Employment Situation, the number of respondents reporting as "employed but absent from work due to other reasons" has risen as a share of the l…
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June 17, 2020
The slowdown in productivity growth and policies that can restore it
Improving labor productivity is important to sustain economic output and power long-run growth—yet productivity growth has generally declined over the past hal…
