Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities works to get as much federal taxpayer funding as possible for "low-income Americans."
Mission/History
From their website:[1]
Mission
- "We are a nonpartisan research and policy institute. We pursue federal and state policies designed both to reduce poverty and inequality and to restore fiscal responsibility in equitable and effective ways. We apply our deep expertise in budget and tax issues and in programs and policies that help low-income people, in order to help inform debates and achieve better policy outcomes."
History
- "The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) was founded in 1981 to analyze federal budget priorities, with a particular focus on how budget choices affect low-income Americans. We have broadened our work considerably over the years as we responded to new developments and entered new areas of research.
Most notably, we began extensive work on budget priorities and low-income programs at the state level in the 1990s as Washington was shifting responsibility over many areas of low-income policy to the states. In the states, we also collaborate with non-profits — including the more than 40 members of the State Priorities Partnership — to build their capacity to conduct sound budget and policy analysis and participate effectively in policy debates."
Oppose Constitutional Balanced Budget Amendment
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and the Economic Policy Institute "organized" a letter dated July 28, 2011 signed by "leading economists, including five Nobel Laureates in economics"[2] Michelle Bazie of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and Phoebe Silag of the Economic Policy Institute were listed as contacts.
The signatories of the letter are Nobel Laureates Kenneth Arrow, Peter Diamond, Eric Maskin, Charles Schultze, William Sharpe and Robert Solow; Alan Blinder, former Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve System’s Board of Governors and former member of the Council of Economic Advisors; and Laura Tyson, former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors and former Director of the National Economic Council.[3]
References
Board of Directors
As of 2011;
- David de Ferranti, Board Chair, President, Results for Development Institute
- Henry J. Aaron, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
- Kenneth Apfel, Professor of the Practice, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland
- Jano Cabrera, Managing Director, Burson-Marsteller
- Henry A. Coleman, Rutgers University, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
- James O. Gibson, Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of Social Policy
- Beatrix Hamburg, Visiting Scholar, Cornell Medical College, Department of Psychiatry
- Antonia Hernandez, President, California Community Foundation
- Wayne Jordan, CEO, Jordan Real Estate Investments, LLC
- Frank Mankiewicz, Vice Chairman, Hill and Knowlton
- Lynn McNair, Vice President, Philanthropic Partnerships, Salzburg Global Seminar
- 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
- Robert D. Reischauer, President, Urban Institute
- Paul Rudd, Adaptive Analytics, LLC
- Susan Sechler, Managing Director, TransFarm America
- William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor and Director of the Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program, Harvard University
Emeritus Board Members
- Barbara Blum, Senior Fellow, National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University
- Marian Wright Edelman, President, Children's Defense Fund
- John Kramer, Founding Chair, 1937-2006
- Sol Price, 1916-2009
Experts
As of 2011;[4] Director
- Robert Greenstein, President
- T. Scott Bunton, Executive Vice President
Federal Fiscal Policy
- Jared Bernstein, Senior Fellow
- Indivar Dutta-Gupta, Policy Advisor
- James R. Horney, Vice President for Federal Fiscal Policy
- Chuck Marr,Director of Federal Tax Policy
- Chad Stone,Chief Economist
- Richard Kogan, Senior Fellow
- Kathy Ruffing, Senior Fellow
- Paul N. Van de Water, Senior Fellow
References
- ↑ Mission/History accessed Sept 19
- ↑ https://www.cbpp.org/press/press-releases/press-release-nobel-laureates-and-leading-economists-oppose-constitutional Press Release: Nobel Laureates and Leading Economists Oppose Constitutional Balanced Budget Amendment "opposing a constitutional balanced budget amendment."(accessed November 1, 2021)
- ↑ https://www.cbpp.org/sites/default/files/atoms/files/7-19-11bud-pr-sig.pdf Nobel Laureates and Leading Economists Oppose Constitutional Balanced Budget Amendment Letter (accessed November 1, 2021)
- ↑ CBPP Experts page, accessed October 2011