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Assessing the state of household finances in nine charts
An assessment of household finances finds that consumer spending is solid, but income growth has been relatively weak.
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Protecting urban places and populations from rising climate risk
This paper proposes three complementary policies for enhancing urban resilience to new climate risk. The first focuses on improving key urban infrastructure. T…
The economic and policy context for greenhouse gas emissions
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions—and primarily CO2 emissions—have meaningfully contributed to the warming the globe has experienced so far, and are expected to c…
Aligning federal coal leasing and US climate policy
In a new paper from The Hamilton Project and the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago, Professors Kenneth T. Gillingham (of Yale) and James H. …
Federal minerals leasing reform and climate policy
Over the past two decades Democratic and Republican administrations have taken steps to reduce U.S. carbon-dioxide emissions by reducing use of fossil fuels. D…
Differences in water use across counties in the United States
Using newly released data, The Hamilton Project presents an economic analysis and a new interactive feature to illustrate the great variation in the level and …
America’s fragmented water systems
In the blog post, The Hamilton Project explores the regulatory challenges of America's fragmented water systems and highlight eye-opening information from …
Shopping for water: How the market can mitigate water shortages in the American West
In the face of a severe drought in the West, new approaches are required to mitigate the risk of water shortages. In this Hamilton Project paper, Peter Culp, R…
Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew details economic costs of climate change at Hamilton Project forum
"As an economic matter, the cost of inaction or delay is far greater than the cost of action" on climate change, said U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew in a…
