Jeffrey Carr
President & Economist
Mr. Carr currently serves as President and Economist of Economic & Policy Resources, Inc. in Williston. For the past 22 years he has served in a number of capacities focusing on macro-economic analysis, economic forecasting, forensic economics, economic impact analysis, and fiscal policy analysis for federal, state, and local governments. For the past 13 years, he has served as the State Economist and Principal Revenues Analyst for the Vermont Agency of Administration over the past three gubernatorial administrations (including the Administrations of Governor James H. Douglas, Howard B. Dean, and the late Richard A. Snelling). He also has served as consulting economist to the Vermont Department of Economic Development since 1995, and a number of businesses, business-trade associations, and municipalities throughout the northern New England region.
Prior to that, Mr. Carr served as Legislative Director and Economist for a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1987-89) in Washington DC; served for over four years in the Governor's Office during the first administration of Richard A. Snelling (1980-84); served as Director of Research for a national education organization specializing in federal fiscal policy analysis (1984-85); and was the Research Director for a United States Senate campaign (1985-87). He has been the Econometric Model Manager and Vermont Forecaster for the New England Economic Project for the past 13 years (and 17 of the past 23 years), and he taught economics in the Graduate School at St. Michael's College in Winooski in the mid-1980s. Mr. Carr has been the keynote speaker at numerous conferences and has written extensively on the subject of Vermont economic and fiscal policy.