Federal appointment is good news for advocates on low-income issues

Terry Scanlon, a fiscal policy analyst for the Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute, filed this report today from Washington, D.C., where he's attending a conference:

Robert Greenstein, the director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, has good news for for those who are concerned that Washington hasn't been progresssive enough. Greenstein Tuesday praised President Obama’s choice of Jack Lew to serve as director of the Office of Management and Budget, a position Lew held under President Clinton for a few years. Greenstein, who has worked on federal budget issues since the 1970s, told a group of progressive advocates in Baltimore that of all the OMB directors he has known, Lew is “the most progressive and the most focused on low-income issues.”