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.

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Priorities

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

• Policies designed to improve the economic prospects of low-income working families and increase economic mobility and opportunity;
• The key role of education at all levels in creating and increasing the skills the next generation of workers need to reduce their chances of poverty and improve their opportunities;
• The growth of single-parent families caused by early unwed childbearing and the decline of marriage;
• Investments in children that could improve their chances to get ahead and ensure that programs for children do not lose out in competition for federal funding; and
• The growing fiscal problems at the federal and state levels and steps that might be taken to ensure fiscal responsibility while minimizing cuts in effective programs targeted to low-income families and children.

The Center on Children and Families has received funding from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Foundation for Child Development, First Focus, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Summit Foundation, and the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation.

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Directors

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

Participating Scholars

Gary Burtless, Senior Fellow in Economic Studies
William T. Dickens, Nonresident Senior Fellow in Economic Studies
Joshua M. Epstein, Senior Fellow in Economic Studies
William G. Gale, Vice President and Director of Economic Studies, Co-director, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center
Julia B. Isaacs, Child and Family Policy Fellow
Jeffrey R. Kling, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director in Economic Studies
Hugh B. Price, Nonresident Senior Fellow in Economic Studies
Howard Rolston, Nonresident Visiting Fellow
Adam Thomas, Research Director, Responsible Parenting Project
R. Kent Weaver, Senior Fellow in Governance Studies

Staff

Julie Clover, Assistant Director
Mary Baugh, Center Coordinator/Research Assistant
Emily Groves, Project Coordinator/Research Assistant
Emily Monea, Research Assistant
Daniel Moskowitz, Research Assistant