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Author of "The Role of the Federal Government in Financing Higher Education and Systematic Thinking for Social Action," Rivlin has done numerous studies on the economics of education, public finance, population and the balance of payments...
...School of Education's Graduate Society last night presented medals to three alumnae: Margaret Atwood, novelist and poet; Rulan Chao Pian '44, professor of East Asian Languages and Civilization and of Music; and Alice M. Rivlin, director of the Congressional Budget Office...
...Rivlin, an economist and the first director of the newly created Congressional Budget Office, joined the Brookings Institute in 1957 as a research fellow and later became a senior fellow. In 1966 she became deputy assistant secretary for program analysis in the Department of Health Education and Welfare, a position that she held until former President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed her assistant secretary for planning and evaluation...
...Alice Rivlin, director of the Congressional Budget Office, argues that calling these expenditures uncontrollable has become an excuse for inaction. Congress has the power to change the laws but is reluctant to tackle powerful pressure groups, including the elderly, retired civil servants, and veterans...
...Rivlin argues that spending cannot be substantially brought down until Congress is willing to tackle the legislated pensions, subsidies and other transfer payments to retired civil servants, veterans, farmers and other politically vindictive constituencies. To call these payments "uncontrollables" is, she contends, a copout. Congress enacted them, and Congress can change them...