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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 safety net should work for working-age adults
Able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs) receive minimal support from traditional safety net programs. Many struggle to work because of health conditions, disabilities, and precarity in the low-wage labor market.
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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Poverty and poverty reduction among non-elderly, nondisabled, childless adults in affluent countries: The United States in cross-national perspective
Economic Security & Inequality
Social Insurance
Economic Facts
Ten economic facts about rental housing
Housing & Infrastructure
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Policy Proposals
April 25, 2018
Reducing Chronic Absenteeism under the Every Student Succeeds Act
In this Hamilton Project strategy paper, Lauren Bauer, Patrick Liu, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, and Jay Shambaugh articulate a framework for states as they ov…
Posts
April 25, 2018
School Attendance: A Building Block of Student Achievement
Fellow Lauren Bauer breaks down why chronic absenteeism matters for all students, drawing on a new Hamilton Project strategy paper on school accountability und…
Policy Proposals
February 27, 2018
Coming and Going: Encouraging Geographic Mobility at College Entry and Exit to Lift Wages
Geography is an important part of economic opportunity—but due to monetary and nonmonetary costs of migration, college attendance is less likely for those who …
Papers
February 27, 2018
Returning to Education: The Hamilton Project on Human Capital and Wages
Human capital is central to raising wages. This framing paper describes trends in human capital investment and educational attainment, and reviews the evidence…
Posts
February 12, 2018
To Increase College Completion Rates, Invest Directly In Public Postsecondary Institutions
Late last week, Congress agreed to spend an additional $4 billion over the next two years on programs to improve college completion rates. "How should these re…
Policy Proposals
October 19, 2017
Helping Women to Succeed in Higher Education: Supporting Student-Parents with Child Care
Women have surpassed men in college enrollment. This trend is particularly pronounced among nontraditional students, including part-time and older students—two…
Papers
May 11, 2017
Putting Your Major to Work: Career Paths after College
In this economic analysis, The Hamilton Project explores how college majors and occupations interact to produce a wide range of labor market outcomes. Differen…
Posts
May 11, 2017
Where Will Your Degree Take You? Career Paths after College
In this blog post, we examine our economic analysis and interactive tool, "Putting Your Major to Work: Career Paths after College," exploring how college major…