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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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The softening labor market is still growing
This analysis uses key indicators from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) to investigate how firms are hiring and retaining workers and the implications for the labor market. More rece...
Employment & Wages
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Immigration and the macroeconomy in the second Trump administration
Effective Government
Healthy Economy
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The softening labor market shows resilience and some pockets of slack
Employment & Wages
Policy Proposals
A federal guarantee for earned paid time off
Economic Security & Inequality
Employment & Wages
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June 13, 2012
Energy policy opportunities and continuing challenges in the presence of increased supplies of natural gas and petroleum
This Hamilton Project framing paper summarizes recent changes in the energy sector, and lays out five principles for shaping energy and environmental policy.
Policy Proposals
June 13, 2012
Modernizing bonding requirements for natural gas producers
To ensure funds are available for clean-up when natural gas accidents occur, Lucas Davis of UC Berkeley explores new approaches to bonding requirements for pro…
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June 1, 2012
The role of oil and gas in driving job growth
The Hamilton Project explores what increased domestic natural gas and oil production means for the American energy sector, the environment, and employment.
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May 18, 2011
A strategy for America’s energy future: Illuminating energy’s full costs
America’s energy choices are built on the prices we see at the pump and our utility bills. Yet these prices mask the social costs arising from those energy cho…
Policy Proposals
May 18, 2011
A better approach to environmental regulation: Getting the costs and benefits right
Ted Gayer proposes three reforms addressing several problems that undermine the role played by cost-benefit analysis in environmental regulation: 1) agencies s…
Policy Proposals
May 18, 2011
An energy technology corporation will improve the federal government’s efforts to accelerate energy innovation
John M. Deutch proposes a series of best practices for government support of U.S. technology demonstration and a new institution, the Energy Technology Corpora…
Policy Proposals
May 18, 2011
Promoting clean energy in the American power sector
Joseph E. Aldy proposes a national clean energy standard that would lower carbon dioxide emissions by as much as 60 percent relative to 2005 levels over twenty…
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May 6, 2011
We are what we breathe: The impacts of air pollution on employment and productivity
Despite modest improvement in April jobs numbers, the job gap — the number of U.S. jobs that must be created to return to pre-recession levels — is just under …