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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 softening labor market shows resilience and some pockets of slack
Our review of key labor market indicators finds that the labor market remains tight but shows some pockets of slack.
Employment & Wages
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Policy Proposals
A federal guarantee for earned paid time off
Economic Security & Inequality
Employment & Wages
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Event recap—How would across-the-board tariffs create chaos in 2025?
Healthy Economy
Tax Policy & Budget
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Immigration and the macroeconomy after 2024
Effective Government
Healthy Economy
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Learning from the successes and failures of charter schools
Because many successful charter schools represent a radical departure from traditional public schools, they often embody a black box to educational reformers. …
Harnessing technology to improve K-12 education
Education technologies hold promise for personalized learning and for building basic skills, but a fundamental obstacle remains: the effectiveness of learning …
A dozen economic facts about K-12 education
The Hamilton Project explores both the condition of education in the United States and the economic evidence on several promising K-12 interventions that could…
Innovation is the key to better education
Although innovation has revolutionized the American economy as a whole over the last century, the education sector has benefitted relatively little from these …
August jobs report: The private sector continues to grow
The unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent in August, according to today’s employment report, which is the lowest rate since the onset of the recession. The pri…
A record decline in government jobs: Implications for the economy and America’s workforce
The Hamilton Project examines the short- and long-run impacts of public-sector job cuts since the Great Recession. If the share of government employment to pop…
The role of fiscal stimulus in the ongoing recovery
The Hamilton Project examines the relationship between government spending and unemployment, finding that states that spent more during the Great Recession exp…
Energy policy opportunities and continuing challenges in the presence of increased supplies of natural gas and petroleum
This Hamilton Project framing paper summarizes recent changes in the energy sector, and lays out five principles for shaping energy and environmental policy.
