Hamilton Project Proposes Comprehensive Anti-poverty Initiatives Brookings Institution
Millions of people live in poverty in this country. They suffer
not only material deprivation, but also the hardships and
diminished life prospects that come with being poor. In
recognition of these challenges, the Brookings Institution has
commissioned fourteen innovative, evidence-based antipoverty
proposals through its Hamilton Project.
Launched in 2006 as an economic policy initiative at the
Brookings Institution, The Hamilton Project is guided by an
Advisory Council of academics, business leaders, and former
public policy makers. The Project provides a platform for a broad
range of leading economic thinkers to inject innovative and
pragmatic policy options into the national debate. The Project
offers proposals rooted in evidence and experience, not doctrine
and ideology, and brings those ideas to bear on policy debates in
relevant and effective ways.
