Reid Cramer
Research Director, Asset Building Program
Economic Growth, Next Social Contract, Ownership & Assets
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Reid Cramer is Research Director of the Asset Building Program at the New America Foundation, where he leads the program's policy research activities. The Asset Building Program aims to promote policies and ideas that expand savings and asset ownership, especially among lower-income families. His work has provided analytical support for the development of the ASPIRE Act, a bipartisan proposal to create a savings account for every newborn child in America. Recently, he has served as Co-Director of the New America Foundation’s Next Social Contract Initiative, an effort to examine the delivery of social policy for the 21st century.
Prior to joining New America, Dr. Cramer served as a policy and budget analyst in the Clinton and George W. Bush White Houses, where he helped coordinate policies on housing, taxes, savings, and economic development. He has also worked for a range of nonprofit housing and community development organizations, the National Research Council, and the Urban Institute. He has a doctorate in public policy from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as a master’s degree in city and regional planning from the Pratt Institute and a bachelor of arts degree from Wesleyan University. His written work has appeared in scholarly journals and popular media.
Prior to joining New America, Dr. Cramer served as a policy and budget analyst in the Clinton and George W. Bush White Houses, where he helped coordinate policies on housing, taxes, savings, and economic development. He has also worked for a range of nonprofit housing and community development organizations, the National Research Council, and the Urban Institute. He has a doctorate in public policy from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as a master’s degree in city and regional planning from the Pratt Institute and a bachelor of arts degree from Wesleyan University. His written work has appeared in scholarly journals and popular media.
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