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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 safety net should work for working-age adults
Able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs) receive minimal support from traditional safety net programs. Many struggle to work because of health conditions, disabilities, and precarity in the low-wage labor market.
Economic Security & Inequality
Social Insurance
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The austere US safety net for poor, non-elderly adults who are not raising children and do not receive disability benefits
Economic Security & Inequality
Social Insurance
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Poverty and poverty reduction among non-elderly, nondisabled, childless adults in affluent countries: The United States in cross-national perspective
Economic Security & Inequality
Social Insurance
Economic Facts
Ten economic facts about rental housing
Housing & Infrastructure
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Achieving Universal Coverage Through Medicare Part E(veryone)
This paper outlines a model for Medicare Part E(everyone), a program to provide universal, continuous, and affordable health insurance. This proposal adopts Me…
Taking Massachusetts National: An Incremental Approach to Universal Health Insurance
Jonathan Gruber discusses issues surrounding universal healthcare coverage and the uninsured and lays out a plan at the national level which builds on the Mass…
A Comprehensive Cure: Universal Health Care Vouchers
Ezekiel Emanuel and Victor Fuchs discuss a Universal Healthcare Voucher System, which would achieve universal health coverage by entitling all Americans to a s…
Reforming Corporate Taxation in a Global Economy: A Proposal to Adopt Formulary Apportionment
This paper argues that the current system of taxing multinational firms generates tax distortions. It proposes a new system that would protect the U.S. tax bas…
Achieving Progressive Tax Reform in an Increasingly Global Economy
The dynamic forces of technological change, financial innovation, and globalization present new challenges for progressive taxation. This strategy paper offers…
Taxing Privilege More Effectively: Replacing the Estate Tax with an Inheritance Tax
Lily Batchelder proposes replacing the estate tax with an inheritance tax. She argues that this tax would lower taxes on heirs receiving smaller inheritances a…
Rehabilitating the Business Income Tax
In this paper, Edward D. Kleinbard introduces the Business Enterprise Income Tax (BEIT), a proposal for reforming business income taxation. He argues that the …
Evolving Beyond Traditional Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
For most working-age families, health insurance is directly connected to the workplace; but this form of coverage is steadily eroding. This paper outlines thre…
