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Ron Haskins
Ron Haskins is a senior fellow in the Economic Studies
Program at the Brookings
Institution and senior consultant at the Annie E. Casey
Foundation in Baltimore. From February to
December of 2002 he was the Senior Advisor to the President
for Welfare Policy at the White
House. Prior to joining Brookings and Casey, he spent 14
years on the staff of the House Ways and
Means Human Resources Subcommittee, first as welfare counsel
to the Republican staff, then as the
subcommittee’s staff director. From 1981-1985, he was a
senior researcher at the Frank Porter
Graham Child Development Center at the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill. He also taught
and lectured on history and education at UNC, Charlotte and
developmental psychology at Duke
University. Haskins was the editor of the 1996, 1998, and
2000 editions of the Green Book, a 1600-
page compendium of the nation’s social programs published by
the House Ways and Means
Committee that analyzes domestic policy issues including
health care, poverty, and unemployment.
Haskins has also co-edited several books, including Welfare
Reform and Beyond: The Future of the Safety
Net (Brookings, 2002), The New World of Welfare (Brookings,
2001) and Policies for America’s Public
Schools: Teachers, Equity, and Indicators (Ablex, 1988), and
is a contributor to numerous books and
scholarly journals on children’s development and social
policy issues. He has written articles and
editorials that have appeared in several newspapers and
periodicals including the Washington Post,
New York Times, Policy Review, State Government News,
National Review, and the Weekly Standard. At
Brookings and Casey, his areas of expertise include welfare
reform, child care, child support
enforcement, and child protection. In 1997, Haskins was
selected by the National Journal as one of
the 100 most influential people in the federal government.
In 2000, Haskins received a Lifetime
Achievement Award from the Federal Office of Child Support
Enforcement; and in 2005 he
received the President’s Award for Outstanding Contributions
to the Field of Human Services from
the American Public Human Services Association. He holds a
Bachelor’s degree in History, a
Master’s in Education, and a Ph.D. in Developmental
Psychology, from UNC, Chapel Hill.
Haskins, who was a noncommissioned officer in the United
States Marine Corps from 1963 to 1966,
lives with his wife and son in Rockville, Maryland.