THREAD ON BOB GREENSTEIN: 1/Yesterday was @GreensteinCBPP last day heading @CenterOnBudget after 40 years. There may not be anyone in Washington who has done more, year-by-year, over these decades to champion Medicaid, SNAP, EITC and to fight for those battling poverty.
2/ The weapons of influence deployed by Bob Greenstein and Center for Budget and Policy Priorities are not political power or campaign contributions but rigorous data, world class policy analysis and amazing perseverance on behalf of the lowest-income members of our nation
3/The greatest successes of @GreensteinCBPP & @CenterOnBudget were in shaping policy & rarely public. But they measure success not in terms of how much credit they get, but in the hundreds of billions in additional funds they have won for tens of millions of those most in need
4/ Leadership is never just about individual effort, but building sustainable institutions & movements that carry on. That's what Bob has done in his building of @CenterOnBudget as an institutional champion of the poor – that will carry on under leadership of Sharon Parrott.
5/ Bob Greenstein is a personal hero. He is a conscience of Washington. He is a national treasure.
Read more about Bob’s four decades of advocacy to fight poverty in Al Hunt’s excellent column in The Hill. thehill.com/opinion/financ…
Read more about Bob’s four decades of advocacy to fight poverty in Al Hunt’s excellent column in The Hill. thehill.com/opinion/financ…
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