Nominee's Background:
Max B. Sawicky is an Economist at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. He resides with his wife and daughter in Silver Spring, Maryland. He received an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland/College Park.
He has worked in the Office of State and Local Finance of the U.S. Treasury Department and the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. He has studied and written about the economics of public finance, with an emphasis on the Federal budget, tax policy, the U.S. federal system, state and local finance, privatization, and welfare reform. His reports for the Economic Policy Institute include: "The Roots of the Public Sector Fiscal Crisis," "The Poverty of the New Paradigm," and "Up From Deficit Reduction."
He is a co-author of Risky Business: Private Management of Public Schools, and he is the editor of The End of Welfare? Consequences of Federal Devolution for the Nation (M.E. Sharpe, 2000). He has been a contributor to Tax Notes, Working USA, Challenge, The American Prospect, Dissent, New Economy, Social Policy, In These Times, Social Forces, Newsday, the Newark Star-Ledger, the Houston Chronicle, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and many other newspapers. He serves on the National Executive Board of Americans for Democratic Action
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Progressive Criteria:
The Treasury Department will
Put protecting consumers ahead of protecting the interests of banks, including protecting confidentiality, measures against identify theft, protections against predatory lending, especially from credit card companies;
Work to guarantee bankruptcy protection for ordinary Americans;
Support adding labor and environmental safeguards to international trade agreements;
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