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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.
Policy Proposals
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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The 51%: Driving growth through women’s economic participation
The U.S. economy will not operate at its full potential unless government and employers remove impediments to full participation by women in the labor market. …
Tax policies to encourage women’s labor force participation
Ordinarily, the progressive income tax system acts to mitigate differences in before-tax earnings. However, the tax treatment of married couples tends to raise…
Public investments in child care
Child care is a necessity for working women with young children. However, the costs of high-quality center-based child care in the United States—particularly f…
Modernizing US labor standards for 21st century families
Women now make up almost half the U.S. workforce, and more than half of the U.S. population. Despite the central role women play in the economy, our labor laws…
Making work pay better through an expanded Earned Income Tax Credit
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is a refundable tax credit that promotes work. Despite the strong evidence for the effectiveness of the EITC and recent bip…
Increasing the economic security of older women
Popular commentary often points to the lower lifetime earnings and longer expected life spans of women relative to men as a reason to be especially concerned a…
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…
Expanding access to earned sick leave to support caregiving
Nicole Maestas proposes a federal earned sick leave mandate guaranteeing one hour of flexible, multi-purpose sick leave for every 30 hours worked.
