Staff

Maya MacGuineas

Maya MacGuineas is the President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Additionally, she is the Director of the Fiscal Policy Program at the New America Foundation. Previously, she served as a Social Security adviser to the McCain Presidential Campaign, and worked at the Brookings Institution, the Concord Coalition and on Wall Street. She serves on the Boards of a number of national, nonpartisan organizations.

Adam Carasso

Adam Carasso is a Research Director at the New America Foundation, where he applies a decade of experience examining the distribution of wealth, income, and taxation to the task of developing comprehensive reforms that will steer the federal tax system and entitlement programs in a pro-saving direction. Additionally, he advances efforts to bring accountability to the federal budget process. Before joining New America, Mr. Carasso worked for the Urban Institute and the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, where he published extensively.

Marc Goldwein

Marc Goldwein is a Research Associate at the New America Foundation. Mr. Goldwein recently graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins, with a BA in political science. In the past, he participated in internships at the Government Accountability Office, the Office of Senator Specter, and the Historian's Office at the Social Security Administration. An Associate Member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, Mr. Goldwein has done considerable research on the U.S. Social Security system, and is the recipient of the Julius Turner Award for his honors thesis, Riding The Third Rail, written on the Politics of Social Security reform.

Daniel Kowalski

Dan Kowalski currently serves as the founding Director of the Missouri Legislative Budget Office, an independent, non-partisan budget analysis agency serving the Missouri General Assembly.  Prior to that February 2007 appointment, he served for 8 years as the Director of Budget Review for the Majority staff of the House Budget Committee. Dan also worked for 4 years at the Congressional Budget Office as a Principal Analyst in the Budget Analysis Division, and for 7 years for the Finance Committee of the New York State Senate as a tax analyst. He serves as a consultant to the Committee.

Paul McLaughlin

Paul McLaughlin is a Research Associate at the New America Foundation. He graduated from Yale University in 2006 with a degree in English and Economics. While at Yale, he wrote articles and editorials for several campus publications and received the Glenn E. DeChambert prize for distinguished contribution to the University. Prior to joining New America, he worked as a research assistant to Professor Tim Guinnane, Ph.D., focusing primarily on population economics, and as an assistant to Dr. Ann Olivarius, Ph.D., conducting a longitudinal study of female Rhodes Scholars.

Susan Tanaka

Susan Tanaka serves as a consultant to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget on the Exercise in Hard Choices ^SM project, which the Committee created to increase public understanding of U.S. fiscal policy. Ms. Tanaka is the creator of PolicySite.org, a gateway to web-based information related to budget and fiscal policy. She previously held positions as Associate Director for Communications and Senior Analyst for the Congressional Budget Office, senior budget examiner for the Office of Management and Budget, and Vice President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Ms. Tanaka holds an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management, an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a B.A. from Antioch College.