State Policy Fellowship

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is a high-caliber strategic policy institute that informs and shapes public policies to reduce poverty, promote equity, and build opportunity. It has a national reputation for conducting rigorous research and analysis, developing evidence-based policy ideas and strategies, shaping a broad array of policy debates at the federal and state levels, and influencing policy outcomes on a range of critical issues. It focuses on improving the lives of people with low or moderate incomes and examines how policies affect particular groups, including Black, Indigenous, and other people of color, immigrants, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ people. The Center is known for its unique capacity to blend rigorous, timely analysis with effective communications that enable policymakers and the media to make use of its work. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is seeking applicants for the State Policy Fellowship Program to work as analysts on budget and public policy issues affecting low- and moderate-income communities and communities of color. To expand the diversity of voices that speak with authority in state policy debates, the program identifies highly motivated candidates - with particular attention to candidates who have experience with communities underrepresented in state policy debates - with a demonstrated interest in working on public policies that affect low-income and diverse communities and have implications for racial equity. Fellows are placed with influential state policy organizations across the country. The fellowship is a project of the State Priorities Partnership, a national network coordinated by the Center. Position: Working in independent, highly respected policy organizations located across the country, State Policy Fellows analyze the impact of state budget and tax policy choices on low-income residents and communities of color and promote positive reforms. Fellows tackle domestic policy challenges in areas such as: Taxes Health care Poverty reduction Population health Criminal justice K-12 and higher education Immigrant rights Youth and adult justice Tribal and Indigenous policy Economic development The State Policy Fellows