Howard Gleckman

“I’m a big fan of Gleckman's writing for the careful and merciless analysis he brings to both the Obama and McCain campaigns.”

Ezra Klein, The American Prospect blog. Aug 8, 2008

Highly-regarded journalist and author Howard Gleckman is editor of TaxVox, the economic policy blog of the Tax Policy Center. TaxVox currently receives more than 175,000 page views per month. TPC, a joint venture of The Brookings Institution and The Urban Institute, is an independent, non-partisan research organization.

Mr. Gleckman is also author of Caring for Our Parents (St. Martin’s Press, 2009) that looks at how the U.S. delivers and pays for long-term services through the eyes of the elderly and disabled and the families who care for them. He is also author of the Caring for Our Parents blog.

Prior to creating TaxVox in Oct, 2007, Gleckman was senior correspondent in the Washington bureau of Business Week, where he covered economics, tax and budget policy, and health care. He was a 2003 National Magazine Award finalist for “The Coming Revolution in Health Care”. He was a 2004 National Magazine Award nominee for “The Stealth Tax” and a 2005 Business Journalist of the Year finalist.

Mr. Gleckman was a 2006-2007 Media Fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation and a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College from 2006 to 2008.

Mr. Gleckman has appeared on CNN, CNBC, C-Span, NPR, and the BBC. He has also been a moderator/speaker at The Urban Institute, The Heritage Foundation, The American Enterprise Institute, New America Foundation, Center for American Progress, Center on Budget & Policy Priorities, Practicing Law Institute, and the National Governors’ Association.