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

Resources

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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"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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