Former Staff
Jason Furman
Areas of Expertise: Social Security, Tax — Federal
Furman was a Non-Resident Senior Fellow specializing in social security and tax reform issues with the Center through January 2007. Furman was based at New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, where he was a Visiting Scholar. Previously Furman served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy in the Clinton Administration. Furman has been a visiting lecturer at Columbia and Yale Universities. In addition, he served as a Staff Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers, Senior Economic Adviser to the Chief Economist of the World Bank, and Director of Economic Policy for the Kerry-Edwards campaign. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
Recent Reports
- If You're Going to Do Social Policy Through the Tax Code, Do it Right
- A Tough Recovery By Any Measure: New Data Show Consumer Expenditures Lag for Low- and Middle-Income Families
- A Short Guide to Dynamic Scoring
- Treasury Dynamic Scoring Analysis Refutes Claims by Supporters of the Tax Cuts
- Do Revenue Surprises Tell Us Much about The Cost of Tax Cuts?
