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HENRY AARON

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HENRY J. AARON is currently Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Senior Fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. From 1990 through 1996 he was the Director of the Economic Studies Program.

He initially joined the Brookings staff in 1968. From 1967 until 1989 he also taught at the University of Maryland. In 1977 and 1978 he served as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. He chaired the 1979 Advisory Council on Social Security. During the academic year 1996-97 he was a Guggenheim Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

He is a graduate of U.C.L.A and holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.

He is a member of the Congressional Budget Office Panel of Economic Advisors, the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the advisory committee of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and the visiting committee of the Harvard Medical and Dental Schools. He is a member of the board of directors of Abt Associates and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. He was a founding member, vice-president, and board chair of the National Academy of Social Insurance. He has been vice-president and member of the executive committee of the American Economic Association and was president of the Association of Public Policy and Management. He has been a member of the boards of directors of the College Retirement Equity Fund and Georgetown University.

Recent Posts

Health Care Law Dodges a Bullet…for Now

Posted: 6/28/2012 5:31:00 PM

Health care reform is a drama in four acts.  The first two acts—the Congressional debate leading to enactment of the Affordable Care Act, and the multiple court cases culminating in today’s Suprem…

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How Our Broken Tax System Drives the Economy

Posted: 1/31/2012 1:49:00 PM

Bruce Bartlett is a tax curmudgeon – and I mean that as a compliment. It is hard to spend as much time as Bartlett does studying the U.S. tax system and not get grumpy. Bartlett writes with such ‘…

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Ryanomics: Radical, Otherworldly

Posted: 4/12/2011 10:03:00 AM

Just after the Republican electoral blow-out last November, I asked one of my colleagues, a former Republican member of Congress, what he thought the new House majority would do with its power. Hi…

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Put the Bowles-Simpson Plan on Ice

Posted: 12/2/2010 11:37:00 AM

The president’s fiscal commission formally votes Friday on co-chairmen Erskine Bowles’s and Alan Simpson’s deficit reduction plan. The plan would need a 14-vote supermajority to be sent to the flo…

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A Deficit-Reduction Plan Rife With Problems

Posted: 11/12/2010 12:49:00 PM

The draft proposal of the leaders of President Obama’s deficit commission arouses strongly mixed emotions.  On the one hand, authors Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson deserve credit, along with othe…

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TODAY’S BELTWAY BLAST

We've hit the debt ceiling again, and the U.S. is on life support. Are we headed for another blowout?
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