Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Welfare Reform and Income Support

Sharon Parrott

Parrott is 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.

Parrott routinely provides 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 has been quoted in such publications as The New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street Journal and the Associated Press.

Parrott joined the Center in 1993 and has conducted research and analysis on federal and state welfare issues as well as low-income tax policy. 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.

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