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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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A national paid parental leave policy for the United States
Despite widespread public support for paid parental leave, the United States is the only industrialized country without a national policy providing mothers wit…
Who is poor in the United States? A Hamilton Project annual report
Who are the millions of people living in poverty in the United States? In this economic analysis, we characterize those who were living in poverty in 2016, as …
Thirteen facts about wage growth
One of the best measures economists use to determine Americans’ economic advancement is whether wages are rising, broadly and consistently. This document highl…
Who is out of the labor force?
Our nation’s labor force participation rate has fallen steadily since 1999, a trend that many economists find troubling, since the labor force participation ra…
The closing of the jobs gap: A decade of recession and recovery
In this economic analysis, The Hamilton Project evaluates the nation's economic recovery, assessing jobs growth at a national level and examining factors t…
Food insecurity among children in 2015
In this blog, The Hamilton Project examines how food insecurity affects children in the United States and policies that can help alleviate this problem.
Putting your major to work: Career paths after college
In this economic analysis, The Hamilton Project explores how college majors and occupations interact to produce a wide range of labor market outcomes. Differen…
Where will your degree take you? Career paths after college
In this blog post, we examine our economic analysis and interactive tool, "Putting Your Major to Work: Career Paths after College," exploring how college major…
