Roxie Nicholson

Roxie Nicholson
Born	August 5, 1950 Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Education	BA and MA, PhdUniversity of North Carolina and University of Maryland

Roxie Nicholson is a policy analyst currently working at the United States Department of Labor.^[1] She is considered an expert on welfare policy and has often been quoted by the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Weekly Standard and other media on welfare to work and poverty issues. She is best known for her critique of welfare reform efforts in the 1990s which she claimed would eventually lead to more childhood poverty and underfunded block grants to states. She has been a contributor to numerous evaluations of welfare policy in the United States.

References

1. Johnson, Earl S; Levine, Ann; Doolittle, Fred C (1999). Fathers' Fair Share: Helping Poor Men Manage Child Support and Fatherhood. Russell Sage Foundation. p. xiii. ISBN 9780871544117. Retrieved 17 November 2010.