In this month’s employment analysis, THP explores government employment since the Great Recession and finds that, had the policy response been similar to that after other recent recessions, the economy would have about 2.2 million more jobs today.
On April 17th, U.S. Senators Rob Portman and Mark Warner, joined CEA Chair Alan Krueger, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin and others for a forum to discuss the importance of evidence in policymaking.
The Hamilton Project's new budget book presents 15 pragmatic, evidenced-based proposals from leading experts from a variety of backgrounds. Each proposal would reduce the deficit and while also bringing broader economic benefits.
The Hamilton Project has created a new interactive feature that calculates how implementing different proposals in our “15 Ways to Rethink the Federal Budget” could impact the ten-year budget picture.
THP highlights a policy memo that explores some of the questions frequently raised around immigration in the United States and the economic impacts that new immigrants have on wages, jobs, budgets, and the U.S. economy.
The Project’s strategy reflects a judgment that long-term prosperity is best achieved by fostering economic growth and broad participation in that growth, by enhancing individual economic security, and by embracing a role for effective government in making needed public investments.
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