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Senior Fellow, Economic StudiesDirector, Budgeting for National PrioritiesCo-Director, Center on Children and FamiliesThe 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 at Brookings.
Children; education; federal budget; poverty and inequality; social welfare policy; teen pregnancy
Current PositionsPresident, National Campaign To Prevent Teen Pregnancy; Senior Editor, The Future of ChildrenPast PositionsSenior 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
Ph.D. (1968), B.A. (1962), New York University
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"If you're born into a poor family, it's very hard to escape. And similarly, if you're born into a rich family, you're likely to stay there... The notion of rags to riches in a generation, in other words, is mostly a myth."
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