Ron Haskins: Working Group Conversation 2013’s Best Opportunities To Improve Child Well Being & Work Outcomes For California’s Poorest Families
Please join the UC Davis Center for Poverty Research and
the Western Center on Law and Poverty for a working-group
conversation with Ron Haskins at the University of California
Center Sacramento.
Ron Haskins is the Co-director of the Brookings Center on
Children and Families and the Budgeting for National Priorities
Project.An expert on preschool, foster care, and poverty, Dr.
Haskins was instrumental in the 1996 overhaul of national welfare
policy. His areas of expertise include welfare reform, child
care, child support enforcement, family composition and marriage,
and child protection. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in History, a
Master’s in Education, and a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology,
from UNC, Chapel Hill.
