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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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Look beyond gross domestic product to assess the effects of tax reforms
Wendy Edelberg and Ben Harris scrutinize the misplaced focus on aggregate output in tax policy debates and suggest other considerations to prioritize.
Tax Policy & Budget
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The coming fiscal cliff: A blueprint for tax reform in 2025
Tax Policy & Budget
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The coming end of federal child care funding threatens working mothers’ gains
Employment & Wages
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The Power of Policy to Reduce Poverty: Lessons from the Pandemic
Economic Security & Inequality
Recessions
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The Labor Market Experiences of Workers in Alternative Work Arrangements
In 2017, over 15 million workers (about 10 percent of the total U.S. workforce) were in alternative work arrangements. In this economic analysis, Ryan Nunn and…
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…
How Stabilizing Has Fiscal Policy Been?
Louise Sheiner and Michael Ng investigate the cyclicality of fiscal policy over the past 40 years, finding that fiscal policy has been increasingly countercycl…
The Damage Done by Recessions and How to Respond
Automatic stabilizers are designed to expand during an economic downturn and contract during an expansion—providing timely and temporary fiscal stimulus. Boush…
Addressing Modern Debtors’ Prisons with Graduated Economic Sanctions that Depend on Ability to Pay
The use of monetary sanctions to punish crimes ranging from minor traffic or public order offenses to the most serious felonies is ubiquitous in the United Sta…
Nine Facts about State and Local Policy
Policy debates often focus only on major decisions made in Washington, DC. But for many Americans, the decisions made much closer to home have just as large, i…
Labor Market Considerations for a National Job Guarantee
In this framing paper, Ryan Nunn, Jimmy O'Donnell, and Jay Shambaugh evaluate the potential labor market impacts of several employment support policies, wi…
A Dozen Facts about Immigration
Immigration has wide-ranging impacts on society and culture, and its economic effects are no less substantial. This document provides a set of economic facts a…
