Center on Children and Families

The Center on Children and Families studies policies that affect the well-being of America's children and their parents, especially children in less advantaged families. The Center addresses the issues of poverty, inequality, and lack of opportunity in the United States and seeks to find more effective means of addressing these problems.

Priorities

The Center on Children and Families focuses its resources on examining six issues that we believe will be at the heart of domestic social policy debates for at least the next decade. These issues are:

  • The effects of the recession on disadvantaged families;
  • Increasing economic mobility and opportunity for low-income families;
  • The key role of education in increasing economic mobility;
  • Reducing the growth of single-parent families;
  • Investments in children to increase their access to opportunity; and
  • The enormous fiscal challenge of a growing elderly population.
Scholars

Isabel V. Sawhill, Co-Director of CCF, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies
Ron Haskins, Co-Director of CCF, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies
Richard V. Reeves, Policy Director of CCF, Fellow, Economic Studies

Affiliated Scholars

Alan Berube, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program
Gary Burtless, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies
William A. Galston, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies
R. Kent Weaver, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies
Grover J. “Russ” Whitehurst, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, Director, Brown Center on Education

Staff

Stephanie Cencula, Center Coordinator
Kerry Searle Grannis, Associate Director, Social Genome Project
Kimberly Howard, Senior Research Assistant
Quentin Karpilow, Senior Research Assistant
Gregory Margolis, Senior Research Assistant
Joanna Venator, Research Assistant

Center on Children and Families
The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036

Tel.: 202.797.6151
Fax: 202.797.2968
E-mail: ccf@brookings.edu