The Hamilton Project

The Hamilton Project at Brookings produces research and policy proposals on how to create a growing economy that benefits more Americans.

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The public sector has seen a recent and steady decline in the share of workers who are covered by or a member of a union.

Why is this happening, and what does it mean for workers? Learn more in this set of economic facts. https://t.co/2KLnV2VcGd

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Signed into law on July 4 last year, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will make SNAP substantially and detrimentally less responsive to economic downturns, Lauren Bauer and Diane Schanzenbach warn.

Read more: https://t.co/DMwFb3dGMf

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OBBBA will shift a portion of SNAP benefit costs onto states according to their SNAP payment error rates. Our interactive, now updated with FY2025 data, shows that 35 states may be responsible for between 5 and 15 percent of SNAP benefits. https://t.co/Q89tyWQw1n

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This week marks one year since the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). Lauren Bauer and Diane Schanzenbach warn that OBBBA’s cuts to SNAP will undermine the program’s ability to respond to recessions. https://t.co/DMwFb3dGMf

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In her proposal, @BetseyStevenson makes the case for a new baseline for American workers—a modernization of the FLSA that includes a federal guarantee for earned paid time off.

https://t.co/RljJ5LRdgc

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The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) was signed into law #OTD in 1938, setting groundbreaking standards for American workers. U.S. workforce standards have changed little since then—but U.S. workforce needs have changed a lot.

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🧵(1/12) On Tuesday, @hamiltonproj released my proposal on reforming US international tax. I suggest raising corporate rates for the biggest profit taxpayers, and strengthening US international tax rules to better align with the large potential of international efforts.

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In conjunction with the event, The Hamilton Project released three new proposals that offer concrete, evidence-based ideas for business tax reform.

Read the framing paper: https://t.co/I9issN2Sq5

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“[Partnership tax is] really an elegant, nice system. It’s just completely unworkable.” Gregg Polsky and other leading tax experts joined our event Tuesday, co-hosted by @TaxLawCenterNYU and @TaxPolicyCenter, to discuss business tax reform.

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Watch the event recording: https://t.co/fqfbYzTrRz

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Join us this afternoon @ 3 PM ET to learn more: https://t.co/fqfbYzTrRz

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Amid growing concerns about our country’s fiscal trajectory, three new Hamilton Project proposals offer concrete business tax reform ideas to raise revenue.

Read the framing paper: https://t.co/I9issN2Sq5

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Miles Johnson, Thalia Spinrad, Kathleen Bryant, and Chye-Ching Huang develop and analyze a proposal to tax large pass-through businesses as C corporations.

https://t.co/e5JhIURygt

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Where do we go from here on corporate taxation?

Join @HamiltonProj, @TaxLawCenterNYU, and @TaxPolicyCenter on 6/16 @ 3 p.m. ET for an event on business tax reform: https://t.co/fqfbYzTrRz

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Next week, we’ll be getting down to business (taxation) with @AvivaAronDine, @KClausing, @dashching, @elenaspatel, @RichardRubinDC, and more. Join us on 6/16 @ 3 p.m. ET: https://t.co/fqfbYzTrRz

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Reforming corporate taxation is a critical step toward raising additional revenue and making the tax system more progressive. Join us on 6/16 to discuss the need for, and path forward, on business tax reform: https://t.co/fqfbYzTrRz

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Do you wish you spent less time on social media? In a new paper, Hunt Allcott, Matthew Gentzkow, and Lena Song present evidence that self-control problems, exacerbated by habit formation, account for about one-third of social media use on average. https://t.co/CE8aPMZz31

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Is social media making its users worse off? Bursztyn et al. offer evidence that many social media users are caught in a product market trap: People feel compelled to use social media, even though they wish it did not exist to begin with. https://t.co/Zk3Lmo3GNu