Maya MacGuineas

Maya Carol MacGuineas
Born	1968 Washington, D.C., USA
Education	B.A. Northwestern University, M.P.P. Harvard University[1]
Occupation	Policy Analyst
Spouse(s)	Robin Jermyn Brooks [2]
Children	William (2004), Annika (2006)[3]
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Maya MacGuineas (born in 1968 in Washington, DC) is the President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget -- a bipartisan, non-profit organization in the United States committed to educating the public about issues that have significant fiscal policy impact. She is also the Director of the Fiscal Policy Program at the New America Foundation—a non-partisan think tank based in Washington, DC.^[4] A native Washingtonian, she obtained a Master in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

She serves on the boards of a number of national, nonpartisan organizations.

Background

Education

Born in Washington in 1968 to D. Biard MacGuineas and Carol Kalish,^[2] MacGuineas attended the Sidwell Friends School. She graduated from Northwestern University, where she majored in economics and psychology, and she received a Master degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.^[3]

Professional career

MacGuineas has run the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget since 2003, and works mainly on issues related to fiscal, tax, economic, and retirement policy. She has also published a number of articles, including in The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Financial Times and the Los Angeles Times. Once dubbed "an anti-deficit warrior" by The Wall Street Journal,^[5] MacGuineas comments often on broadcast news and is widely cited by the national press.

MacGuineas also served on The Washington Post editorial board in the Spring of 2009, where she covered economic and fiscal policy and wrote extensively on the health care reform debate. She served as a Social Security adviser to the 2000 McCain Presidential Campaign.^[6]

Before joining the New America Foundation, MacGuineas worked at the Brookings Institution, the Concord Coalition, and on Wall Street. She has also advised numerous candidates for office from both parties, and works regularly with members of United States Congress on health, economic, tax, and budget policy.

MacGuineas served as a member of the Debt Reduction Task Force at the Bipartisan Policy Center.^[7]

Publications

• Closing the Hurricane Gap
• http://budget.house.gov/hearings/2008/09.25.08_MacGuineas_Testimony.pdf
• Reducing the Budget Deficit Requires More Than Just Health Care Reform
• Lock boxes are too easily picked
• Homeowner tax breaks are breaking the budget
• Radical Tax Reform
• Health Reform's Savings Myth 31 May 2009
• Capping Individual Tax Expenditures
• The Future Is Now: A Plan to Stabilize Public Debt and Promote Economic Growth

External links

• Profile at New America Foundation
• Fiscal Policy Homepage at New America Foundation
• "As Bernanke Tapped for a Second Term, US Deficits Appear Likely to Soar", PBS Newshour
• SOCIAL SECURITY, PBS Newshour (19 October 2004)

References

1. ^ "Washington Life Magazine - March 2002 - Washington Weddings". Washingtonlife.com. http://www.washingtonlife.com/backissues/archives/02mar/weddings.htm. Retrieved 29 March 2011. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "WEDDINGS; Maya MacGuineas, Robin Brooks". The New York Times. 13 January 2002. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/13/style/weddings-maya-macguineas-robin-brooks.html. Retrieved 29 March 2011. 
3. ^ ^{a b} "Budget panel president's 'exhausting' dream job". Washington Times. 13 December 2009. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/13/budget-panel-president-macguineas-exhausting-job/. Retrieved 29 March 2011. 
4. ^ "Maya MacGuineas". NewAmerica.net. http://www.newamerica.net/people/maya_macguineas. Retrieved 29 March 2011. 
5. ^ Izzo, Phil (1 June 2009). "Secondary Sources: Health Care, Reich on GM, Borrowing - Real Time Economics". The Wall Street Journal. http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/06/01/secondary-sources-health-care-reich-on-gm-borrowing/. Retrieved 29 March 2011. 
6. ^ "Maya MacGuineas". Subsidyscope.com. 19 August 1998. http://www.subsidyscope.com/board/#mayamacguineas. Retrieved 29 March 2011. 
7. ^ [1] "Debt Reduction Task Force Members"

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