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A Hot Labor Market Won’t Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Unemployment Gaps

A Healthy Reform to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Updating the Thrifty Food Plan

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Time Waited for No Mom in 2020

Removing Policy Obstacles to Competitive Labor Markets

The Critical Role of Social Insurance in the US and Policies for Reform

Policies to Protect Workers and Families: Rethinking Social Insurance

In a new framing paper, Mitchell Barnes, Lauren Bauer, Wendy Edelberg, Sara Estep, Robert Greenstein, and Moriah Macklin examine the U.S. social insurance system. They consider the social insurance system as a whole as well as its component parts, providing an overview of major federal programs in the areas of…

Tax Data Show Evidence of Strong Income Gains for Higher-Income Families and Only Muted Decreases for Lower- and Moderate-Income Families in 2020

Examining the uneven and hard-to-predict labor market recovery

On May 26, 2021, Lauren Bauer testified before the the U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Committee Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations on the subject of “The Future of SNAP: Moving Past the Pandemic”.

Strengthening the Child Tax Credit: What Comes Next?

Rethinking the Economics of Child Care and Paid Leave: Policies to Protect Workers and Families

In this proposal, Elizabeth Davis and Aaron Sojourner of the University of Minnesota propose an ambitious vision to increase federal funding for Early Childhood Care and Education (ECE) to ensure every American family and child has access to high-quality affordable child care during the first five years of life.

In a new policy proposal, Tanya Byker and Elena Patel propose the creation of a federal Paid Parental and Medical Leave (PPML) program. The proposal would establish a partial wage replacement system, extended to all eligible wage employees, to supplement income during work disruptions due to the arrival of a…

Aaron Sojourner

Mothers are Being Left Behind in the Economic Recovery from COVID-19

Tax Reforms to Raise Revenue Efficiently and Equitably

Bob Greenstein Joins The Hamilton Project at Brookings

Rethinking Unemployment Insurance and Housing Support: Policies to Protect Workers and Families

In this proposal Robert Collinson, Ingrid Gould Ellen, and Benjamin Keys propose a plan to support homeowners and renters to stabilize households and housing markets during future economic downturns. Their proposal would create new emergency rental assistance accounts for low-income households; implement an automatic, three-month forbearance period for vulnerable mortgage…

In this proposal, Arindrajit Dube offers a comprehensive plan to reform and modernize the Unemployment Insurance (UI) system to reflect and align with the challenges of the current labor market. He recommends converting UI into a fully federal program; ensuring that more people who need UI are eligible; creating automatic…

Wendy Edelberg, Sara Estep, Stephanie Lu, and Emily Moss examine and offer new insights on the recent history of housing policy from the latter half of the 20th century to today, compare homeowner and renter experiences, and analyze housing assistance policies. The authors conclude that to increase housing stability, policymakers…

Don’t Overreact to Inflation Data this Spring

In these Economic Facts, Hamilton Project reviews trends in women’s labor force participation and documents how mothers of children under age 13 have changed how they spend their time. These 10 economic facts detail some of the ways in which work, time, and caregiving have changed for mothers with young…

In this economic analysis, Kristen E. Broady, Darlene Booth-Bell, Jason Coupet, and Moriah Macklin examine data on the 60 jobs that employ the most workers in the United States and have the highest and lowest susceptibility to automation in the next 10 to 20 years, with a particular focus on…

Rethinking Workforce Development: Policies to Protect Workers and Families

In this proposal, Harry Holzer outlines ways to boost students and workers in the American economy. He recommends enacting reforms to increase funding for the Higher Education Act of 1965, adding modest taxes on worker displacement, and creating a permanent version of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career…

The Critical Role of Workforce Training in the Labor Market Recovery

A Macroeconomic Analysis of a Senate Republican COVID Relief Package

The Macroeconomic Implications of Biden’s $1.9 Trillion Fiscal Package

Higher Education’s Reopening Decisions Affected the Most Vulnerable Students

Rethinking Social Insurance: Policies to Protect Workers and Families

The Hamilton Project in 2020 – A Year in Figures

The Black-White Wealth Gap Left Black Households More Vulnerable

There are Too Many Ways to Lose Unemployment Compensation

Hungry at Thanksgiving: A Fall 2020 Update on Food Insecurity in the U.S.

Tracking the mounting challenges among those who have lost their jobs

What Could Additional Fiscal Policy Do for the Economy in the Next Three Years?

Major Decisions: What Graduates Earn Over Their Lifetimes

Higher Education & COVID-19: The Future of Learning, Opportunity, and Work

In this proposal, Richard Arum and Mitchell Stevens propose twin federal government initiatives to incentivize innovation in instructional delivery throughout the national postsecondary ecology, to bridge the divide between academia and the workforce system, and to accrete a cumulative science of adult learning.

Teen Disengagement is on the Rise

Raise the SNAP Maximum Benefit to Reduce Food Insecurity

Why Extend Pandemic EBT? When Schools are Closed, Many Fewer Eligible Children Receive Meals.

An Eviction Moratorium without Rental Assistance Hurts Smaller Landlords, Too

Small Businesses & COVID-19: Supporting Firms at Risk of Failure

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented the United States with a set of unique public health and economic challenges. Economically, the crisis has negatively affected businesses, the labor market, and households. In this set of 10 facts, Wendy Edelberg, Kristen Broady, Lauren Bauer, and Jimmy O’Donnell assess the extent of these…

The COVID-19 pandemic poses an existential threat to small businesses, with more than 400,000 lost since the crisis began. Many small businesses are financially fragile and not equipped to weather a prolonged period of substantially reduced revenues. In this proposal, Steven Hamilton of The George Washington University calls for a…

Five Figures Highlighting the Economic Impact of COVID-19

Essential Workers during COVID-19: At Risk and Lacking Union Representation

Some of the starkest differences between women and minorities' participation in the innovation process arises in the practice and commercialization of invention. The proposals put forward here would address each of these phases of the innovation process.

Black Households & COVID-19: Impediments to Economic Security

The COVID-19 Public Health and Economic Crises Leave Vulnerable Populations Exposed

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a disproportionate toll on Black Americans—yet these unequal outcomes are not novel challenges. Bradley Hardy and Trevon Logan outline several pre-pandemic conditions that have impeded Black Americans’ economic security and increased their vulnerability to the current crisis.

Unemployment Insurance Extended Benefits Will Lapse Too Soon Without Policy Changes

In this blog post, Lauren Bauer, Abigail Pitts, Krista Ruffini, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach find that Pandemic EBT reduced food hardship experienced by low-income families with children and lifted at least 2.7-3.9 million children out of hunger.

How COVID-19 is Reshaping the Future of Business and Work

The COVID-19 public health crisis, the economic shock triggered by the pandemic, and public policy, business, and individual responses to the pandemic together have provoked the sharpest and fastest economic downturn in U.S. history. Wendy Edelberg and Jay Shambaugh discuss how the current crisis fits into historic context and what…

David Autor and Elisabeth Reynolds ask whether the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the conventional wisdom about automation and inequality in the United States over the past four decades. They make four projections about a rapidly automating post-COVID-19 economy: increasing telework, city de-densification, large-firm consolidation, and forced automation, all of which…

The economic crisis in the wake of the pandemic is changing the business landscape, exacerbating concerns about the state of competition in the U.S. economy.  Nancy Rose documents how some large, well-positioned firms have dramatically increased their market share, accelerating trends seen prior to the pandemic.

The economic damages of the COVID-19 pandemic are not being well captured by current labor market statistics that show both permanent damage to employment relationships and labor force attachment as well as a surge of workers who have experienced a temporary loss of work and income. In this essay, Betsey…

About 14 Million Children in the US Are Not Getting Enough to Eat

On July 1, 2020, Hamilton Project Director Wendy Edelberg joined the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis on a press conference call to discuss the forthcoming jobs report and the need for strong federal action to address the ongoing jobs crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic.