The Center on Children and Families studies policies that affect the well-being of America's children and their parents, especially children in less advantaged families. The Center addresses the issues of poverty, inequality, and lack of opportunity in the United States and seeks to find more effective means of addressing these problems.

Priorities

Over the next several years the Center will give particular attention to the following issues:

• Low-income working families and policies designed to improve their economic prospects;
• Economic mobility and opportunity in the United States and investments in children, such as preschool programs, that could improve their chances to get ahead;
• The growth of single-parent families caused by early unwed childbearing and the decline of marriage; and
• Fiscal problems at the federal and state levels and steps that might be taken to ensure fiscal responsibility while minimizing cuts in effective programs targeted to this group.

The Center on Children and Families has received funding from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Foundation for Child Development, First Focus, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Summit Foundation, and the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation.

Directors

Isabel V. Sawhill, Co-Director of CCF, Senior Fellow in Economic Studies
Ron Haskins, Co-Director of CCF, Senior Fellow in Economic Studies

Participating Scholars

Rebecca M. Blank, Senior Fellow in Economic Studies
Gary Burtless, Senior Fellow in Economic Studies
William T. Dickens, Nonresident Senior Fellow in Economic Studies
Joshua M. Epstein, Senior Fellow in Economic Studies
William G. Gale, Vice President and Director of Economic Studies, Co-director, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center
Julia B. Isaacs, Child and Family Policy Fellow
Andrea Kane, Outreach Consultant
Melissa S. Kearney, Nonresident Fellow
Jeffrey R. Kling, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director in Economic Studies
Hugh B. Price, Nonresident Senior Fellow in Economic Studies
Howard Rolston, Nonresident Visiting Fellow
Adam Thomas, Research Director, Responsible Parenting Project
R. Kent Weaver, Senior Fellow in Governance Studies

Staff

Julie Clover, Assistant Director
Mary Baugh, Staff/Research Assistant
Tori Finkle, Research Assistant
Emily Groves, Project Coordinator/Research Assistant
Emily Monea, Research Assistant