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Event recap—Addressing threats to the SNAP program
On October 30, The Hamilton Project hosted a webcast to highlight the importance of SNAP amid the ongoing government shutdown and in the wake of major cuts to the program in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
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Tariffs are a particularly bad way to raise revenue
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SNAP cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will significantly impair recession response
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Tracking National Labor Relations Board actions through its administrative data
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Decreasing the Patent Office’s incentives to grant invalid patents
There is general agreement that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issues too many invalid patents—those patents issued on an existing technology or on an ob…
The next generation of transportation policy
In this paper, Greenstone, Sunstein and Ori propose two major steps towards simplifying fuel efficiency standards and refocusing the program on achieving guara…
Learning what works in educational technology with a case study of EDUSTAR
Innovations in technology hold great promise for application in education, and yet new educational technologies have yet to fundamentally advance student outco…
The opportunities and challenges for workers in the online gig economy
While forms of nontraditional and contingent work relationships such as subcontracted, temporary, part-time, and seasonal work are not new, the emergence of th…
Workers and the online gig economy
In this framing paper, The Hamilton Project describes the broader economic context of contingent employer–employee relationships and where the emerging on-dema…
A proposal for modernizing labor laws for 21st century work: The “independent worker”
The rise of technological intermediaries enabling workers to engage in the gig economy has resulted in protracted legal battles over whether to classify these …
Correcting signals for innovation in health care
When Americans select health insurance, they cannot choose what technologies and treatments to include in their coverage. The fact that Americans have little c…
Racing ahead or falling behind? Six economic facts about transportation infrastructure in the United States
Many agree on the need for increased investment in America’s aging infrastructure, including roads, bridges, and airports. This set of economic facts provide o…
