Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities "was founded in 1981 to analyze federal budget priorities, with particular emphasis on the impact of various budget choices on low-income Americans. Our work has broadened considerably since then as we have responded to new developments and entered many new areas of research...

"In a 1998 Aspen Institute survey of members of Congress of both parties and Administration officials, the Center was identified as the single most influential non-profit organization in Washington on federal budget policy."

Directors
Accessed September 2008:


 * David de Ferranti, Vice President of the World Bank for the Latin American and Caribbean Region, Chair
 * Henry J. Aaron, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
 * Kenneth Apfel, Professor of the Practice, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland
 * Barbara Blum, Senior Fellow for Child and Family Policy, National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University
 * Marian Wright Edelman, President, Children's Defense Fund
 * James O. Gibson, Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of Social Policy
 * Beatrix Hamburg, Visiting Scholar, Cornell Medical College, Department of Psychiatry
 * Frank Mankiewicz, Vice Chairman, Hill and Knowlton
 * Richard P. Nathan, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Director, Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government
 * Marion Pines, Senior Fellow, Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies
 * Sol Price, Founder and Chairman, The Price Company (Retired)
 * Robert D. Reischauer, President, Urban Institute
 * Audrey Rowe, AR Consulting
 * Paul Rudd, Adaptive Analytics, LLC
 * Susan Sechler, Senior Advisor, German Marshall Fund
 * Juan Sepulveda, Jr., Executive Director, the Common Enterprise/San Antonio Research Associate
 * William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor and Director of the Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program, Harvard University


 * John Kramer, Founding Chair, 1937-2006

Contact

 * Web: http://www.cbpp.org

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