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JON WEINTRAUB spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Barbados where he taught at the University of the West Indies.
JON WEINTRAUB spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Barbados where he taught at the University of the West Indies.
JON WEINTRAUB spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Barbados where he taught at the University of the West Indies.
JON WEINTRAUB
DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF POLICY ANALYSIS
Since January 1995, Mr. Weintraub has served as director of the Office of Policy Analysis for the Assistant Secretary of Vocational and Adult education at the U.S. Department of Education. In that capacity, Mr. Weintraub has responsibility for federal legislation and has coordinated the department-wide activities on welfare reform.
From January 1991 to December 1994, Mr. Weintraub served as staff director for the subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations and the Pension Task Force chaired by Rep. Pat Williams (D-MT). That subcommittee was responsible for all workplace policy issues, including: health care; family and medical leave; school-to-work; job training; striker replacement; electronic monitoring; defense conversion; ERISA preemption; NAFTA; PBGC; NEA; and NEH. Prior to that, he served as Rep. Williams' administrative assistant since February 1983. When Rep. Williams served on the House Budget committee from 1983-1988, Mr. Weintraub served as associate staff for that committee.
Just before the 1992 Presidential election, Mr. Weintraub was asked to joined Secretary Reich's economic policy transition team and worked on budget issues with responsibility for education, labor, economic stimulus, defense conversion, and national service. In December, he also joined the labor policy transition team.
In the Dukakis campaign, Mr. Weintraub worked in congressional relations coordinating campaign activities with ten western congressional delegations. He has worked at the last four democratic conventions as well as mid-term conventions. At the Atlanta convention, Mr. Weintraub was responsible for selecting and briefing members of Congress as surrogates for the campaign appearing on the national television.
Before his tenure on Capitol Hill, he worked for twelve years at the National Association of Counties. The last five of which, he directed their lobbying staff of twelve people for five years. He spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Barbados where he taught at the University of the West Indies.
In the early 1960s, Mr. Weintraub worked for the student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Dallas and Macon counties, Alabama.
Mr. Weintraub has presented seminars on the Congress, how a bill becomes a law, the Congressional budget process, and employment policy at many campuses across the country, including: the Kennedy School at Harvard University; the University of Texas at Austin; the University of California at Berkeley; and San Francisco State University. He has been a major speaker at conferences to audiences of 15 to 4500.
Mr. Weintraub is a graduate of Oberlin College, has an M.A. from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and has studied for a Ph.D. in physical organic chemistry at Brandeis University in Massachusetts.
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