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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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The Hamilton Project: 2025 in figures
These nine data visualizations illustrate The Hamilton Project's work in 2025 on key economic policy challenges and developments.
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Learning curves: Post-COVID learning trajectories differ by the grade a student was in when the pandemic hit
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Artificial intelligence and algorithmic exclusion
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Event recap—Addressing threats to the SNAP program
Economic Security & Inequality
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Nurse licensure compacts before, during, and after COVID
A summary of changes to licensing requirements for nurses focuses on pandemic-era measures and the Nurse Licensure Compact.
How worried should we be if the debt ceiling isn’t lifted? (Archived)
If the debt limit binds, how would the U.S. Treasury operate? How much would federal spending have to be cut? How would the economy be affected? Wendy Edelberg…
The Hamilton Project: 2022 in figures
This review highlights 12 key data visualizations produced by The Hamilton Project that capture the spirit of its work in 2022.
Event recap—The economic benefits of immigration
A December 2022 webcast featuring Sen. Joe Manchin and two roundtables of experts explored how to increase and more equitably share the economic benefits of im…
Renewing America, revamping immigration
Jennifer Hunt identifies reforms to the U.S. immigration system that would increase its economic benefits to the native born, enforce its fairness, and strengt…
A more equitable distribution of the positive fiscal benefits of immigration
Immigration is good for the U.S. economy and for the fiscal picture at the federal level, but some local areas experience adverse fiscal impacts when new immig…
Next steps on the Child Tax Credit
Robert Greenstein identifies priorities for expanding the Child Tax Credit and urges strengthening the CTC for low-income children as much as possible.
The labor market needs to soften—but not as much as some think
Two measures suggest different gaps between the current strength in the labor market and what a more sustainable level would be. This analysis finds that the r…
