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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...
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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
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A federal guarantee for earned paid time off
Economic Security & Inequality
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Investing in the best and brightest: Increased fellowship support for American scientists and engineers
Richard Freeman discusses the National Science Foundation fellowship policy. He argues that current U.S. NSF fellowship policy gives less of an incentive for s…
Aligning patent presumptions with the reality of patent review: A proposal for patent reform
Doug Lichtman discusses the limitations of the current patent review system and proposes policy reforms that would correct for these issues.
A growth-enhancing approach to economic security
American families face new economic risks even as our social safety net is fraying. This paper outlines a strategy for providing a basic level of economic secu…
Universal insurance: Enhancing economic security to promote opportunity
In the past three decades, American families have faced a dramatic increase in economic risk. This paper responds to this rise by proposing a broad-based, stop…
Reforming unemployment insurance for the 21st century workforce
The current system of unemployment insurance has not been updated since 1935 and is in need of reform to meet the needs of today’s workforce. This paper outlin…
Fundamental restructuring of unemployment insurance: Wage-loss insurance and temporary earnings replacement accounts
This paper describes a proposal to restructure social insurance after job loss in order to improve protection against long-term effects of unemployment, provid…
Growth, opportunity, and prosperity in a globalizing economy
This framing paper articulates a philosophy of embracing international competition while investing in workers and market-friendly insurance. The underlying goa…
The ‘simple return’: Reducing America’s tax burden through simple return-free filing
In this paper, Austan Goolsbee proposes phasing in a simple program known as the "Simple Return," that would allow the U.S. government to take advantage of the…
