Ron Haskins is the staff director for the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Respresentatives.  Prior to becoming staff director, he eas welfare counsel for the Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee.  Previously, he was a research professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a lecturer in history and education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, a high school social studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina, and a non-commissioned officer in the United States Marine Corps.  Haskins has published books and articles on intellectual development, illness and day care, day care policy, education policy, divorce and child support, federal expenditures on social programs, and federal budget and tax policy.  In his eleven years in Washington, Haskins has worked primarily on welfare reform, day care, child support enforcement, foster care, unemployment, and budget issues.