Phillip Oliff

Phillip Oliff is the project director for Pew’s work to ensure that workers have high-quality pathways into the labor force. Previously, he was a leader on Pew’s student loan initiative, focusing on the challenges of, and possible solutions for, student loan defaults and veterans’ higher education debt. Oliff also led Pew’s work exploring the fiscal and policy relationships among federal and state governments on a variety of topics, including the effect of federal budget and tax changes on states, the role of federal and state finances in higher education, and surface transportation.

Before coming to Pew, Oliff was a policy analyst with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, where he wrote reports on topics such as education finance, state tax policy, states’ post-recession fiscal conditions, and the impact of emergency federal aid on state budgets.

Oliff holds a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University’s College of Social Studies and a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.