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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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Earned paid time off should be a basic right
Nine out of 10 Americans support the idea that all workers should have the right to take paid time off from their jobs. So why is getting paid time off so hard for American workers?
Economic Security & Inequality
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A primer on SNAP work requirements
Economic Security & Inequality
Employment & Wages
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Event recap—Reimagining homeowners insurance amid growing climate risk
Energy & Climate
Housing & Infrastructure
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A proposal for a US federal property reinsurer
Energy & Climate
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The economic and policy context for greenhouse gas emissions
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions—and primarily CO2 emissions—have meaningfully contributed to the warming the globe has experienced so far, and are expected to c…
In order that they might rest their arguments on facts: The vital role of government-collected data
Objective, impartial data collection by federal statistical agencies is vital to informing decisions made by businesses, policy makers, and families. These mea…
Defending the data
Federal statistical agencies provide indispensable data that strengthens governance, research, and innovation. In this blog, The Hamilton Project explores one …
No free lunch: The pros and cons of public-private partnerships for infrastructure financing
The need to improve our nation’s infrastructure is an issue on which many policy makers, at all levels of government and across the political aisle, can agree.…
If you build it: A guide to the economics of infrastructure investment
This paper seeks to provide an economic framework for evaluating infrastructure investments and their methods of funding and finance. Why should we invest in i…
Money lightens the load
In this economic analysis, THP analyzes the relationship between age, income, and measures of health status, as well as how these relationships have changed be…
Aligning federal coal leasing and US climate policy
In a new paper from The Hamilton Project and the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago, Professors Kenneth T. Gillingham (of Yale) and James H. …
Federal minerals leasing reform and climate policy
Over the past two decades Democratic and Republican administrations have taken steps to reduce U.S. carbon-dioxide emissions by reducing use of fossil fuels. D…
