Dr. Paul R. Cullinan

Dr. Paul R. Cullinan is currently the research director for the Budgeting for National Priorities project at the Brookings Institution. Previously, he had worked at the Congressional Budget Office for 26 years where he most recently served as the chief of the Human Resources Cost Estimates Unit, the group responsible for estimating the costs of legislation in the areas of income security, education and training, housing and food assistance, welfare and other social services. Before becoming unit chief, he spent 15 years working on Social Security and other income-distribution issues at CBO and the Office of Policy Analysis at the Social Security Administration. Dr. Cullinan received his Ph.D. in economics from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University.