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August 28, 2018
Improving health care through occupational licensing reform
In this blog post, Hamilton Project Policy Director Ryan Nunn discusses occupational licensing reform and its potential impact on the U.S. health care system. …
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April 17, 2018
Policy actions that would revitalize wage growth
Revitalizing wage growth is crucial to raising living standards, yet U.S. wage growth has been disappointing both in recent years and over the last several dec…
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November 1, 2017
Removing barriers to female labor-force participation
This op-ed originally appeared in Real Clear Markets, Shambaugh, Nunn, and Portman discuss the barriers that women face in the labor market, arguing that remov…
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October 24, 2017
Why wages aren’t growing in America
In this article, Hamilton Project Director Jay Shambaugh and Policy Director Ryan Nunn address why wages aren't growing in the United States.
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August 30, 2017
We’ve fixed the jobs gap, but people still aren’t working
In this op-ed, Hamilton Project Director Jay Shambaugh discusses the closing of the jobs gap, the many people in the United States who are still out of work, a…
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August 7, 2017
What does the Seattle experience teach us about minimum wages?
Jesse Rothstein
In this op-ed, Hamilton Project Director Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach and THP author Jesse Rothstein discuss a recent study examining the effect of raising the …
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July 6, 2017
Rule reversal: How the Feds can challenge state regulation
An oft-repeated observation is that government works best when it is closest to the people. But when local and state governments are unduly influenced by speci…
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June 13, 2017
The growing employer abuse of the non-compete clause
In this op-ed, Hamilton Project Policy Director Ryan Nunn discusses the growing employer abuse of non-compete clauses, which contributes to the supression of w…