RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Julia B. Isaacs, January 08, 2009, The Brookings Institution and First Focus
Julia Isaacs outlines three policy proposals that have proved cost-effective and that can help to reduce burdens on young families. Read More
VIDEO
Isabel V. Sawhill, December 09, 2008
In these tough times, the economy needs a stimulus, regardless of the impact on the deficit, says Isabel Sawhill. But prudent action needs to be taken to address runaway entitlement spending and that agenda should reconsider our intergenerational spending priorities.
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Isabel V. Sawhill, October 24, 2008, CNNMoney.com
Isabel Sawhill discusses the big three of entitlement programs - Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid and how they will wreak havoc on the country's finances (and yours) unless we scale them back. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Julia B. Isaacs, September 15, 2008, First Focus
Julia B. Isaacs details how the growing evidence about the importance of children’s early years is changing public attitudes toward early childhood programs. Adopting a well-designed package of investments in children from birth to five will improve children’s health, school achievement, and opportunities for future economic success. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Julia B. Isaacs and Emily Roessel, September 04, 2008, The Brookings Institution
Julia Isaacs and Emily Roessel assess the effects of five early childhood education programs—State Pre-K, Head Start, Early Head Start, Model Early Childhood Programs and Nurse Home Visiting—that have had positive impacts on children’s cognitive skills and/or school outcomes. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Isabel V. Sawhill and Emily Monea, June 09, 2008, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
Isabel Sawhill and Emily Monea argue that it's time to tear up the intergenerational contract as we know it and construct public policy around the one group of people for whom social investments really pay off: kids. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Julia B. Isaacs and Isabel V. Sawhill, November 28, 2007, The Brookings Institution
A sharp rise in income inequality in the United States has created large gaps between the haves and the have-nots. Based on new Brookings research, most of today’s adults are better off than their own parents were when they were growing up. The converse: one third remains worse off. Many middle-class families are only one earner away from poverty. Isabel Sawhill and Julia Isaacs argue that America could and should do better, through better access to education, including early childhood education. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Isabel V. Sawhill, October 17, 2007, Child Trends Annual Kristin Anderson Moore Lecture
In the first annual Kristin Anderson Moore lecture for Child Trends, Isabel Sawhill discusses how future generations will have to deal with the challenges of globalization and low savings rates, and emphasizes the need for higher education and fiscal responsibility. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Julia B. Isaacs and Phillip Lovell, March 01, 2007, First Focus
A country's priorities are reflected in its budget. Most people agree that "children are our future," but there's less agreement on how well we are preparing the next generation to lead us into that future. Many argue that it is important to invest in children and youth, building their knowledge and skills so they can be productive workers and citizens. But are we investing enough in them? Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Julia B. Isaacs, January 01, 2007, Budgeting for National Priorities Paper
How can we balance the budget in the next five years? In a series of papers on budget choices, Brookings analysts examine options for reducing domestic discretionary spending, pruning the defense budget, raising revenues, and investing additional resources in children. An overall deficit reduction plan uses the ideas developed in this series to balance the budget in the next five years. All five papers in this series, and more information about the Budgeting for National Priorities project, can be found at www.brookings.edu/budget. Read More
BOOK
Sara McLanahan and Isabel V. Sawhill, September 03, 2006
This semiannual journal provides research and analysis to promote effective policies and programs for children. In this volume, the nation's leading scholars on social mobility focus on the extent to which children’s chances of success depend on the circumstances into which they are born. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Isabel V. Sawhill, April 23, 2006, Kansas City Star
Opinion by Isabel V. Sawhill, Kansas City Star (4/23/06) Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
William T. Dickens, Isabel V. Sawhill and Jeffrey Tebbs, April 01, 2006, The Brookings Institution
Brookings Policy Brief #153 by William T. Dickens, Isabel V. Sawhill and Jeffrey Tebbs (April 2006) Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Isabel V. Sawhill, February 15, 2006, Testimony before the House Committee on the Budget
Testimony by Isabel V. Sawhill, House Committee on the Budget (2/15/06) Read More