Megan A. Curran

Megan A. Curran is the Director of Policy at the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University. Her work explores how the tax system and social safety net can better support children and families and how lessons learned from strategies to reduce child poverty can be shared across countries. She has a particular interest in the Child Tax Credit and how the structure and impact of child allowance programs long in place elsewhere might inform the creation of a national child allowance in the United States. Curran has worked as a policy researcher on child and family poverty and policy solutions in the United States, United Kingdom, and Ireland, including as a legislative fellow in the United States House of Representatives and a legislative aide in the Scottish Parliament. She holds a PhD in Social Policy from University College Dublin, Ireland.