Isabel V. Sawhill

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Co-Director, Center on Children and Families, Budgeting for National Priorities | Senior Fellow, Economic Studies | The Cabot Family Chair
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A nationally known budget expert, Isabel Sawhill focuses on domestic poverty and federal fiscal policy. She is also co-director of the Center on Children and Families and the Budgeting for National Priorities Project at Brookings. | View Full Bio

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202.238.3518 — Staff Assistant: Stephanie Cencula

202.797.6105 — Brookings Office of Communications

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Expertise

  • Children
  • education
  • federal budget
  • poverty and inequality
  • social welfare policy
  • teen pregnancy

Experience

Current Positions

Past Positions

  • Senior Fellow, Urban Institute
  • Associate Director, Office of Management and Budget (1993-95)
  • Visiting Professor, Georgetown University Law School
  • Director, National Commission for Employment Policy
  • President, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management

Education

  • Ph.D. (1968), B.A. (1962), New York University

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"Because differences in income in the U.S. are believed to be related to skill and effort, and because social mobility is assumed to be high, inequality seems to be more acceptable than in Europe."

Source: The Guardian

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