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Co-Director, Center on Children and Families, Budgeting for National Priorities | Senior Fellow, Economic Studies | The Cabot Family Chair
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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Isabel Sawhill
My @BrookingsCCF colleagues on why good health care can reduce health inequality & improve social mobility. http://t.co/BojIhJIjBi
Oct 03
RT @BrookingsInst: A shutdown is "just a bad way to run a government," says @isawhill: http://t.co/1dhy9OlgOc
Sep 30
My take on the government shutdown and debt ceiling standoffs: http://t.co/RgLiHRg5LC
Sep 26
RT @TellMeMoreNPR: It's been almost 50 yrs since Pres Johnson declared a #waronpoverty. So why does it persist? We ask @isawhill & Martha Bailey of @umich
Sep 19
RT @berubea1: 2 Brookings angles on next week's poverty numbers: http://t.co/3ddeG87lP8 and http://t.co/GJVNZuC65j @ekneebone @isawhill @RichardvReeves
Sep 13
Childhood poverty rates and why they matter for intergenerational mobility: my piece on Social Mobility Memos blog: http://t.co/DmnmY8ZMb4
RT @BrookingsEcon: Poverty rates will drop slightly, predicts @isawhill, in advance of Census release of 2012 numbers: http://t.co/KQYEMVsgv6
@BrookingsEcon One step is to focus on student learning, not research.
Sep 05
RT @BrookingsEcon: More colleges worry that big bills will keep the students away. http://t.co/hkwbAUqzMx. Sawhill on how to cut costs: http://t.co/ulVqRTY45l
Glad to have you @RichardvReeves! See http://t.co/QKAsB8i5v9 for taste of what's to come from CCF's new policy director, re: mobility.
Aug 01
RT @BrookingsEcon: Upward mobility is effected by cities, yes, but much more so by education and family structure says @isawhill http://t.co/4ApysQVkXB
Jul 24
RT @BrookingsEcon: "America's Two Most Troubled Sectors: Health Care and Education" by @isawhill http://t.co/vfhLR083Qy
RT @BrookingsEcon: Today on @OnPointRadio, @isawhill discussed the differences in upward mobility in different cities: http://t.co/zW2DWLSkZ2
Jul 23
4 reasons US health & ed failing: 1)fee for service 2)low productivity 3)3rd party pymts & 4)stubborn institutions http://t.co/qFNqaSOJqQ
@CarseyInstitute @BrookingsInst Thanks for sending along. Looks like we are largely in agreement. I look forward to reading it carefully.
Jul 03
Best evidence suggest 10% increase in US MW raises overall prices by no more than 0.4 percent. @Stemic09 @BrookingsEcon @BrookingsInst
Jul 02
Higher minimum wage will help some low-income households, but need broader changes to make real impact. New blog post http://t.co/ICCIB1Xq3I
RT @BrookingsEcon: Who is in the bottom third of the income distribution and why are their incomes so low? @isawhill & Karpilow examine http://t.co/xLqQpP8OdU
Jul 01
Why We Still Think College Isn't for Everyone http://t.co/l0y2HbPNX1 via @BrookingsInst
May 14
Look at graduation rates before investing in a particular higher ed institution: http://t.co/9DdQwHlLY1 via @BrookingsInst
May 09
"We’ve been telling... students and their families for years that college is the only way to succeed in the economy these days and of course there’s a lot of truth to that. On average it does pay off... But if you load up on a whole lot of student debt and then you don’t graduate, that is a very bad situation."
Source: Wall Street Journal
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