URBAN INSTITUTE
GROWING UP UNDER A FOREBODING BUDGET CLOUD:
THE FORECAST FOR GOVERNMENT SPENDING ON CHILDREN
July 19, 2012
Dan Crippen is the executive director of the National Governors Association, where he
identifies the most pressing issues facing states. He was the director of the Congressional Budget
Office from 1999 to 2002. Crippen was a deputy assistant to the president for economic policy
and assistant to the president for domestic policy in the Reagan administration. Crippen is a
trustee of the Center for Health Care Strategies and a member of CBO economic advisors. He
has also served as a senior adviser to the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission
and as a member of the CEO Health Transformation Community.
Olivia Golden (moderator) is an Institute fellow at the Urban Institute and the director of the
Work Support Strategies initiative. Her research focuses on the service delivery, leadership, and
policy strategies used by human services programs. Previous posts include director of state
operations for New York’s governor, director of the District of Columbia’s Child and Family
Services Agency, and assistant secretary for children and families at the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services. She is the author of Reforming Child Welfare.
Marc Goldwein is the senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal
Budget. In 2010, Goldwein served as the associate director of the National Commission on Fiscal
Responsibility and Reform and, in 2011, he was a senior budget analyst on the Joint Select
Committee on Deficit Reduction. He has conducted research for the Government Accountability
Office, World Bank, the Social Security Administration historian, and Institute of Governmental
Studies at UC Berkeley.
Julia Isaacs is a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, with expertise in child and family policy
and government programs that serve low-income families. As a fellow at the Brookings
Institution, she studied federal spending on children, child poverty, the effects of the recession on
children, and economic mobility across generations. Isaacs was a division director at the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services and a budget analyst at the Congressional Budget
Office.
Eugene Steuerle is an Institute fellow and the Richard B. Fisher Chair at the Urban Institute. His
previous positions include deputy assistant secretary of the treasury for tax analysis, chair of the
1999 technical panel advising Social Security on its methods and assumptions, vice president of
the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, and codirector of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center.
Steuerle was the original organizer and economic coordinator of the Treasury Department’s tax
reform effort leading to the Tax Reform Act of 1986. His blog is The Government We Deserve.