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| 2001 || || || "As President Bill Clinton prepared to sign historic welfare reform legislation, Ron Haskins, a former Republican congressional staffer, and Isabel Sawhill, a former official in the Office of Management and Budget for President Clinton, teamed up at Brookings to study the nation’s policies on children and families. In 2001, a proposal by Sawhill and researcher Adam Thomas for a child tax credit became part of major tax legislation."<ref name="brookings.edu"/>
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| 2001 || || || "Radio/TV Studio Opens for Business. institutional milestone. Exactly one week before the {{w|September 11 attacks}} Brookings’s TV and radio studio opens for business, exactly one week before the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The first live television feed occurs on the afternoon of 9/11 with {{w|CNN}}.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 2001 || || || "The terrorist attacks on After the {{w|September 11attacks}}, 2001, increased the urgency of developing strategies to address the threat while sustaining America’s role as a force for prosperity and stability abroad and an open society at home. With with remarkable speed, Brookings experts produced produce influential proposals for homeland security and intelligence operations. They also testified before Congress and used the Institution’s outreach capacity, including its in-house television studio, to explain the new global reality to a frightened public."<ref name="brookings.edu"/> "Responding with Ideas to 9/11. landmark research. Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Brookings experts produce numerous proposals for homeland security and intelligence operations, including “Protecting ''Protecting the American Homeland'' is published on October 25.” They also testify before Congress and use the Institution’s outreach capabilities to explain the new global reality to a frightened public."<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 2001 || || || "2001. Extending the Child Tax Credit. landmark research. A proposal by Brookings scholar Isabel Sawhill helps forge bi-partisan support in Congress to extend the benefits of the child tax credit in the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to lower- and middle-income families."<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
