The Hamilton Project

What The Hamilton Project does

The Hamilton Project is an economic policy initiative housed within the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., founded in April 2006 by a coalition of academics, business leaders, and former policymakers. The organization produces and commissions evidence-based policy proposals, analytical papers, and concise economic facts across twelve topic areas including Tax Policy & Budget, Social Insurance, Health Care, Energy & Climate, Housing & Infrastructure, and Technology & Innovation. Its output is disseminated without charge through the hamiltonproject.org website, a newsletter, an events program (in-person and virtual), and recurring media coverage in outlets such as the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Bloomberg, and NBC News.

The Project is supported by an Advisory Council of approximately 55 prominent figures — including former Treasury Secretaries Timothy Geithner and Robert Rubin, Nobel laureate George A. Akerlof, and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt — and is led by Director Aviva Aron-Dine, with a staff of roughly eleven. It has expanded beyond static publications into a suite of interactive data tools tracking trade and tariffs, labor-market conditions, SNAP payment error rates, and federal expenditures in real time.

The business model is non-commercial: The Hamilton Project is not a separately incorporated entity but an initiative within the 501(c)(3) Brookings Institution, funded through the institution's general operations and grants. All products and services are offered free of charge, and there is no pricing model, revenue stream, or investor base in the conventional sense. Recent strategic activity has centred on collaborative proposals with peer Brookings centres and outside academic institutions, notably on climate-linked homeowners insurance (March 2026) and progressive business tax reform (June 2026).

Name

The Hamilton Project

Legal name

The Hamilton Project

Website

https://hamiltonproject.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Hamilton Project is an economic policy initiative at the Brookings Institution, founded in 2006, that produces and commissions evidence-based policy proposals, analyses, and interactive data tools for federal policymakers, academic economists, and the general public.

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Product category

Economic Policy Research

NAICS

Social Advocacy Organizations (8133), Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (54172)

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Infrastructure & Project Finance Advisory (BPAHADAO)

Keywords

• Economic policy research
• Policy proposals
• Data interactives
• Policy analysis
• Economic facts

Headquarters

HQ city

Washington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Institutional funding: The Hamilton Project operates as an economic policy initiative at the Brookings Institution. As a non-profit policy research organization, it receives funding through institutional support from Brookings and potentially other donors to sustain its operations and produce policy proposals.

Go-to-market motion1 record

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Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

The Hamilton Project is a nonprofit economic policy initiative at the Brookings Institution that produces and commissions policy proposals, research papers, Economic Facts briefs, and commentary posts, and offers interactive data tools and convening events. Its work spans twelve economic topic areas and is distributed free of charge to inform federal economic policy debates.

Product overview

The Hamilton Project is an economic policy initiative at the Brookings Institution that offers a portfolio of policy research products and data tools. The core offerings include: (1) Data interactives for tracking economic indicators including trade flows and tariff policies, labor market statistics, SNAP error rates, and federal expenditures; (2) Publications including policy proposals, research papers, economic facts, and commentary posts; (3) Events featuring expert discussions on economic policy topics; and (4) News aggregation covering external media coverage of the organization's work. The organization does not offer a unified software platform but provides these distinct research and data products.

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Products and services

• Policy Proposals Commissioned and produced policy proposals and analyses for federal policymakers, covering topics including tax policy, corporate tax reform, housing, healthcare, education, employment, immigration, and social insurance.
• Research Papers In-depth analytical research papers on economic policy issues such as SNAP work requirements, partnership taxation, and climate tax policy, aimed at policymakers, academics, and researchers.
• Economic Facts Concise factual analyses on economic topics including union density, labor force participation, education economics, and paid time off, designed for accessibility to policymakers, journalists, and the general public.
• Commentary Posts Commentary and analysis posts covering current economic policy debates and research summaries, authored by THP staff and contributors.
• Events In-person and virtual convenings featuring policymakers, academic experts, and business leaders addressing economic challenges; events include recaps and recordings and cover topics such as tax reform, social media costs, AI's labor market impact, and homeowners insurance and climate risk.
• Tracking Trade Amid Uncertain and Changing Tariff Policies Interactive data dashboard for monitoring ongoing changes in U.S. trade flows, tariffs applied, and traded-goods prices, presenting three dashboards covering goods and services trade, estimated tariffs charged, and import and export price inflation since 2015.
• Tracking the Labor Market and Jobs Interactive data tool allowing users to explore labor force participation, employment, and unemployment trends by demographic groups (sex, age, race/ethnicity, education, nativity, disability status), with data updated twice monthly from CPS and JOLTS surveys.
• SNAP Payment Error Rates by State Data visualization showing SNAP payment error rates for the United States and each state from fiscal year 2003 through fiscal year 2025.
• Tracking Federal Expenditures in Real Time Data tool that tracks federal expenditures, filterable by department, program, and other categories, with daily updates.
• News and Commentary Aggregated news coverage of Hamilton Project work, authors, experts, and Advisory Council members from external media sources including Financial Times, NBC News, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Bloomberg.

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Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

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Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered major, core and supporting.

• Tax Law Center at NYU LawmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 June 2026The Tax Law Center at NYU Law collaborates on business tax reform research. Authors Miles Johnson, Thalia Spinrad, Kathleen Bryant, and Chye-Ching Huang from the Tax Law Center authored the proposal 'Toward a uniform business tax system: Examining proposals to tax large pass-through entities as corporations.'
• Urban-Brookings Tax Policy CentermajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 June 2026The Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center provides revenue estimates and policy analysis for THP proposals. Collaborated on the June 16, 2026 event on business tax reform and provides modeling estimates for various tax policy proposals.
• Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary PolicycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 March 2026The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy collaborates with THP on events and policy research. Most notably, they co-hosted the March 18, 2026 event on 'Reimagining homeowners insurance amid growing climate risk' and the proposal for a US federal property reinsurer ('US Re').
• Brookings InstitutioncoreOthers · 1 April 2006The Hamilton Project operates as an economic policy initiative within the Brookings Institution. Brookings is a private nonprofit organization devoted to research, education, and publication of policy analysis. THP was launched in April 2006 at Brookings and continues as an integral part of the institution.
• Marriner S. Eccles Institute, University of UtahsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerAdam Looney, Executive Director of the Marriner S. Eccles Institute at the University of Utah, co-authored the proposal 'Corporate tax reform in the wake of the 2025 tax law: Completing the shift to a corporate cash-flow tax' with William Gale and Elena Patel of Brookings Institution.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• New America: A non-partisan think tank producing policy research across economic, education, technology, and international policy areas. Comparable in format and audience (federal policymakers and informed public) to THP.
• Economic Policy Institute: A non-profit economic policy think tank producing research on wages, inequality, and federal economic policy. Shares THP's format of policy proposals and data-driven analyses aimed at influencing federal economic debate, though with a more labor-oriented ideological lens.
• Center for American Progress: A progressive policy research and advocacy organization producing policy reports and proposals across economic, social, and domestic issues. Comparable to THP in format, scale of operation, and federal-policymaker orientation, though ideologically aligned rather than non-partisan.
• Brookings Institution: THP's parent institution and direct operating context. Brookings is a non-partisan policy research organization that publishes research across economics, foreign policy, and domestic policy — making it the most directly comparable entity along mission, governance, and operating model.
• Roosevelt Institute: A think tank producing economic policy research and proposals focused on inequality, labor, and antitrust. Comparable to THP in producing evidence-based federal economic policy proposals, with a distinct ideological center of gravity.
• Urban Institute: A major non-partisan economic and social policy research organization that, like THP, commissions and publishes evidence-based policy research aimed at federal and state policymakers. A specific overlapping unit is its co-hosting of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center with Brookings.
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: A non-partisan economic policy think tank focused on federal budget, tax, and anti-poverty policy research. Closely comparable to THP in mission (evidence-based federal economic policy research), scale (similar headcount), and audience (policymakers and journalists).
• Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy: A Brookings-based initiative focused on fiscal and monetary policy. A direct co-host and co-publishing partner of THP (e.g., the 2026 homeowners insurance/climate reinsurer event and proposal), making it the most operationally intertwined peer.

Broad incumbents

• American Enterprise Institute: A major, established center-right economic and domestic policy think tank. Overlaps with THP in producing evidence-based federal economic policy research and proposals, with a broader portfolio and larger staff but a different ideological orientation.

Emerging players

• Tax Law Center at NYU Law: A specialist tax policy research and advocacy organization that co-authored several of THP's recent business tax reform proposals. Comparable as a policy research collaborator contributing to THP's tax-policy output stream.

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Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

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