Former Staff
Sharon Parrott
Parrott worked at the Center from 1993 through August 2009. Parrott was the Director of the Welfare Reform and Income Support Division. This division is responsible for the Center's work on the TANF program and other federal and state policy issues related to welfare reform, child care funding, and child support enforcement. The division also conducts much of the Center's broader analyses of poverty trends and the effectiveness of the safety net.
Parrott routinely provided technical assistance to federal policymakers, state agency officials, and state-level policy organizations on a range of issues related to TANF cash assistance programs, welfare-to-work programs, services for families with barriers to employment, and the interaction and integration of benefit program rules in Medicaid, Food Stamps, TANF, Child Care, and SCHIP.
Parrott also played a key role in the Center’s work on the federal budget, the impact of federal budget decisions on low-income populations, low-income tax policy, and policies that ensure that solutions to climate change do not adversely impact low-income households.
Parrott was quoted in such publications as The New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street Journal, and the Associated Press and has appeared on numerous broadcasts including The Newshour with Jim Lehrer.
In 1999 and 2000, Parrott was detailed to the District of Columbia's Department of Human Services where she served as a Senior Policy Advisor on TANF, Food Stamp and Medicaid issues. Parrott returned to the Center in July 2001.
She received both her B.A. in Economics and Masters Degree in Social Work with a social policy emphasis from the University of Michigan.
Recent Reports
- How Low-Income Consumers Fare in the House Climate Bill
- Waxman-Markey Climate Change Bill Fully Offsets Average Purchasing Power Loss for Low-Income Consumers
- How to Use Existing Tax and Benefit Systems to Offset Consumers’ Higher Energy Costs Under an Emissions Cap
- Medicaid and CHIP Eligibility Is Protected For Jobless Families That Receive Boost in Unemployment Benefits
- Cap and Trade Can Fight Global Warming Effectively While Also Protecting Consumers
