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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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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
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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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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…
The average American worker did not get much of a raise last year
On January 30, 2018, President Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address. In his speech, President Trump highlighted the significant growth a…
Promoting energy innovation with lessons from drug development
Despite progress toward a cleaner energy system, current U.S. policies appear insufficient to reduce emissions enough to avoid catastrophic climate change whil…
Eleven facts about innovation and patents
In this set of eleven economic facts, The Hamilton Project explores central features of the innovation system, including patents, research and development (R&D…
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…
Lessons from the rise of women’s labor force participation in Japan
After lagging behind U.S. women for more than forty years, Japanese prime-age women have now caught up and exceeded the U.S. rate of labor force participation.…
The recent decline in women’s labor force participation
While women’s labor force participation has increased substantially in the U.S. over the second half of the 20th century, this growth has stagnated and reverse…
The incomplete progress of women in the labor market
The gap between wages of men and women has fallen over the past several decades, reflecting women’s economic progress. Successive generations of women have obt…
