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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.
Papers
Progress and stagnation: US poverty, deep poverty, and the safety net, 1967–2023
Robert Greenstein and Danilo Trisi examine poverty, deep poverty, and the poverty gap in the U.S. over time.
Economic Security & Inequality
Social Insurance
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The SNAP state cost-shift policy leaves the program’s existence to chance
Economic Security & Inequality
Social Insurance
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Event recap—Taking on tax: The future of corporate taxation
Tax Policy & Budget
Policy Proposals
Toward a uniform business tax system: Examining proposals to tax large pass-through entities as corporations
Tax Policy & Budget
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National and state-by-state “jobs gap” update for May 2014
Each month, The Hamilton Project examines the “jobs gap,” which is the number of jobs that the U.S. economy needs to create in order to return to pre-recession…
Supporting low-income workers through refundable child-care credits
In this policy memo, James P. Ziliak proposes converting the federal Child and Dependent Care Credit from a nonrefundable tax credit to a refundable one, cappi…
Think before you act: A new approach to preventing youth violence and dropout
A growing body of research in psychology and behavioral economics suggests that a great deal of everyone’s behavior happens intuitively and automatically, with…
Ten economic facts about crime and incarceration in the United States
This Hamilton Project policy memo provides ten economic facts highlighting recent trends in crime and incarceration in the United States. Specifically, it expl…
A new approach to reducing incarceration while maintaining low rates of crime
The United States incarcerates people at a higher rate than any other country in the world. Large increases in the U.S. incarceration rate over the past three …
The unequal burden of crime and incarceration on America’s poor
The Hamilton Project highlights the disproportionate burden of crime and incarceration on America’s poor. For too many Americans, that means living in a commun…
Nationwide and state-by-state “jobs gap” update for March 2014
Each month, The Hamilton Project calculates America’s “jobs gap,” or the number of jobs that the U.S. economy needs to create in order to return to pre-recessi…
New tax legislation would increase the return to work for low- and middle-income working families
Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray introduced legislation that would provide tax relief for working families by establishing a deduction for two-e…
