Robert Greenstein, director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), will present "The Future of the Federal Budget" on Monday, April 12, at 7:30 p.m., in the Chapel. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs speakers series "The Environment: Public Policy and Social Responsibility."
Greenstein is considered an expert on the federal budget, and in particular, the impact of tax and budget proposals on low-income people. Greenstein has written numerous reports, analyses, op-ed pieces and magazine articles on poverty-related issues. He appears on national television news and public affairs programs and is frequently asked to testify on Capitol Hill. In 1994, he was appointed by President Clinton to serve on the Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform.
Prior to founding the center, Greenstein was administrator of the Food and Nutrition Service at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, where he directed the agency that operates the federal food assistance programs, with a staff of 2,500 and a budget of $15 billion. CBPP is respected for its timely, well-researched papers on federal budget, taxation, income distribution and social programs and is described by The New York Times as a "liberal research group."
