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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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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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Financial well-being in retirement: How prepared are we?
Rising life expectancy, combined with the risk of health shocks that will require spending huge sums of money on long-term services and supports, makes retirem…
Major decisions: What graduates earn over their lifetimes (2014)
This economic analysis explores career earnings by college major.
President Bill Clinton: Poverty is not just a statistic; it’s the story of people’s lives
In a blog post originally posted by Brookings Now, Fred Dews and Eline Saxena of Brookings highlight key features of President Clinton's keynote remarks at The…
Addressing the academic barriers to higher education
In this policy memo, Bridget Terry Long proposes that school districts, community colleges, university systems, and state and federal governments reform the co…
Building on the success of the Earned Income Tax Credit
In this policy memo, Hilary Hoynes proposes expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) by raising the benefits for families with one child to be on par with…
Policies to address poverty in America
The introduction to The Hamilton Project’s new volume, Policies to Address Poverty in America, presents an overview of America’s poverty crisis, and makes the …
Ten economic facts about crime and incarceration in the United States
This Hamilton Project policy memo provides ten economic facts highlighting recent trends in crime and incarceration in the United States. Specifically, it expl…
A new approach to reducing incarceration while maintaining low rates of crime
The United States incarcerates people at a higher rate than any other country in the world. Large increases in the U.S. incarceration rate over the past three …
