Publications
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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Climate change and utility wildfire risk: A proposal for a federal backstop
To mitigate wildfire risks from electric utilities, this proposal suggests applying California’s framework across the West via a voluntary multistate and feder…
Governing the grid for the future: The case for a Federal Grid Planning Authority
Shelley Welton discusses the grid governance challenge underlying the U.S. grid’s interconnection, transmission, and reliability challenges.
Why did schools lose students after COVID-19?
This analysis explores families' decisions to explore schooling options away from traditional public schools after the pandemic.
Event recap—Taking on tax: A conversation with National Economic Advisor Lael Brainard
The Hamilton Project at Brookings hosted an event with National Economic Advisor Lael Brainard to discuss the Biden administration’s priorities for future tax …
The changing demographics of business ownership
Recent business ownership gains among Black and Hispanic or Latino families have shrunk longstanding racial and ethnic gaps.
Event recap—Securing the safety net for working-age adults
On April 17, The Hamilton Project hosted a webcast to discuss the safety net for non-elderly adults who do not have dependent children and do not receive disab…
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…
The austere US safety net for poor, non-elderly adults who are not raising children and do not receive disability benefits
The safety net remains starkly inadequate for non-elderly childless adults without disability benefits, leading to higher rates of deep poverty, homelessness, …
