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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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Who enters and who exits direct care jobs in long-term care settings?
An analysis from Krista Ruffini, Karen Shen, and Yulya Truskinovsky examines the high rates of turnover among direct care workers.
Employment & Wages
Health Care
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A direct care worker visa policy to support the aging US population
Employment & Wages
Immigration
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Rethinking Medicare home health
Health Care
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Progress and stagnation: US poverty, deep poverty, and the safety net, 1967–2023
Economic Security & Inequality
Social Insurance
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Building America’s job skills with effective workforce programs: A training strategy to raise wages and increase work opportunities
Amid the Great Recession and rapid technological changes, both workers with less education and workers who have been displaced from long-tenured jobs face chal…
Raising job quality and skills for American workers: Creating more-effective education and workforce development systems in the States
Less educated workers often experience prolonged periods of unemployment and stagnating wages because they lack the skills necessary to compete in a global eco…
Policies to reduce high-tenured displaced workers’ earnings losses through retraining
After being displaced from long-tenured jobs, workers often experience persistent, significant earnings losses. New research suggests that retraining in certai…
Unemployment and earnings losses: The long-term impacts of the Great Recession on American workers
The Hamilton Project explores the experiences of workers who lost their jobs during the height of the Great Recession and finds that even those workers who hav…
What is happening to America’s children? A look at the widening opportunity gap for today’s youth
Resources available to children can have long-term effects on their quality of life. The Project examines the family earnings devoted to the typical American c…
Improving student outcomes: Restoring America’s education potential
For decades, education has boosted U.S. productivity and earnings, forged a path out of poverty for many families, helped disadvantaged students narrow the lea…
The power and pitfalls of education incentives
Recent incentive programs demonstrate that well-designed rewards to students can improve student achievement at relatively low costs. Bradley M. Allan and Rola…
Organizing schools to improve student achievement: Start times, grade configurations, and teacher assignments
While education reform is often focused on dramatic changes, Brian A. Jacob and Jonah E. Rockoff suggest that implementing managerial reforms and making sure t…
