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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 Hamilton Project: 2025 in figures
These nine data visualizations illustrate The Hamilton Project's work in 2025 on key economic policy challenges and developments.
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Learning curves: Post-COVID learning trajectories differ by the grade a student was in when the pandemic hit
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Artificial intelligence and algorithmic exclusion
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Event recap—Addressing threats to the SNAP program
Economic Security & Inequality
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America’s traffic congestion problem: Toward a framework for national reform
David Lewis argues that congestion pricing would reduce the economic costs from congestion and guide transportation resources to their best use, and would gene…
Missing markets: Why markets that can reduce risks are missing and what can be done about it
Jason Furman discusses the issue of missing markets for both societal and individual risk, highlighting reasons for the absence of these markets and proposing …
Viewing education loans through a myopic lens
Although the federal government dedicated nearly $40 billion to funding student loans in 2006, only 60 percent of potential students from low-income families a…
Stabilizing state and local budgets: A proposal for tax-base insurance
Akash Deep and Robert Z. Lawrence propose an affordable federal instrument that could mitigate the adverse impact of tax-revenue shocks on communities by allow…
Increasing annuitization of 401(k) plans with automatic trial income
This paper proposes a policy that would increase the role of lifetime income products in future retirees’ overall retirement planning.
Financing losses from catastrophic risks
Catastrophe insurance helps spread risks and increases the ability of policyholders and the economy to recover from both natural disasters and terrorist attack…
Weighing alternative policies for tackling the mortgage mess
Without government action, mortgage foreclosures will rise steeply for the next several years, argues Doug Elmendorf. He analyzes the wide range of proposals f…
If, when, how: A primer on fiscal stimulus
The livelihoods and living standards of many Americans are at stake in any discussion about stimulus. This paper considers several key questions on stimulus an…
