Please join AEI for a panel discussion on the importance of the 2020 census and what can be done to ensure its success.
Introduction:
* Karlyn Bowman, AEI
Panel Discussion (seated left to right):
* Michael R. Strain, AEI
* John H. Thompson, Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics; Census Bureau (former director)
* Diane Schanzenbach, Northwestern University
* Hans von Spakovsky, Heritage Foundation
* Karlyn Bowman, AEI (Moderator)
Speaker Biographies
Karlyn Bowman, a senior fellow at AEI, compiles and analyzes American public opinion using available polling data on a variety of subjects, including the economy, taxes, the state of workers in America, environment and global warming, attitudes about homosexuality and gay marriage, NAFTA and free trade, the war in Iraq, and women’s attitudes. In addition, Ms. Bowman has studied and spoken about the evolution of American politics because of key demographic and geographic changes. She has often lectured on the role of think tanks in the United States and writes a weekly column for Forbes.com.
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach is director of the Institute for Policy Research and faculty fellow at Northwestern University and the Margaret Walker Alexander Professor in the School of Education and Social Policy. She is also research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. She studies policies aimed at improving the lives of children in poverty, including education, health, and income-support policies. Her recent work has focused on tracing the impact of major public policies such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and early childhood education on children’s long-term outcomes. Dr. Schanzenbach was formerly director of the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution, an economic policy initiative that promotes policies to enhance broad-based economic growth. She has testified before both the Senate and the House of Representatives on her research. She graduated from Wellesley College with a B.A. in economics and religion and received a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University.
Michael R. Strain is the John G. Searle Scholar and director of economic policy studies at AEI. His research interests include labor economics, public finance, and social policy. Dr. Strain’s research has been published in peer-reviewed academic journals and in the policy journals Tax Notes and National Affairs. He has also edited two books on economics and economic policy. He writes frequently for popular audiences. His essays and op-eds have been published by The New York Times, National Review, The Weekly Standard, The Washington Post, and a variety of other outlets, and he is a regular contributor for Bloomberg View. Before joining AEI, Dr. Strain worked in the Center for Economic Studies at the US Census Bureau and in the macroeconomics research group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He is a graduate of Marquette University and holds an M.A. from New York University and a Ph.D. in economics from Cornell.
John H. Thompson is an American statistician and former director of the United States Census Bureau. In this position, one of his main duties was to oversee preparations for the 2020 United States census. Mr. Thompson previously was president and CEO of the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago. He had a distinguished career at the Census Bureau from 1975 to 2002 before joining NORC. Before that, Mr. Thompson served as chief of the Decennial Management Division. He worked in the Statistical Support Division from 1987 to 1995 and the Statistical Methods Division from 1975 to 1987. He is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association and past chair of the association’s Social Statistics Section and Committee on Fellows. He holds both a B.S. and M.S. degree in mathematics from Virginia Tech.
Hans von Spakovsky is a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. As manager of the think tank’s Election Law Reform Initiative, Mr. von Spakovsky also studies and writes about campaign finance restrictions, voter fraud, voter ID, the enforcement of federal voting rights laws, and the administration of elections and voting equipment standards. President Donald Trump appointed him to the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity in 2017. Before joining Heritage in 2008, he served two years as a member of the Federal Election Commission. Previously, Mr. von Spakovsky worked at the Justice Department as counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights. He has served on the board of advisers of the US Election Assistance Commission and on the Fulton County, Georgia, Board of Registrations and Elections. He is a former vice chairman of the Fairfax County, Virginia, Electoral Board and a former member of the Virginia Advisory Board to the US Commission on Civil Rights. He currently serves on the policy board of the American Civil Rights Union.
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