an importuned plea to the twenty-somethings seated around the room: "There's no dancing around the fact that more needs to be done quickly to put our future debt on a downward track. But our leaders need to hear from you." Personal life Rivlin was of Cornish ancestry. In 1955, she married former Justice Department attorney Lewis Allen Rivlin of the Rivlin family, with whom she had three children; they divorced in 1977, although she kept his surname professionally. In 1989, she married economist Sidney G. Winter. She died in Washington, D.C., on May 14, 2019, aged 88. Awards Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement, 1987 First winner of the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, 1998 Foremother Award from the National Center for Health Research, 2012 One of the members of the inaugural class of the Government Hall of Fame, 2019, posthumous Bibliography See also List of female United States Cabinet members References External links Home page at the Brookings Institution Interview with the Minneapolis Fed Interview with Federal Reserve Testimony of Alice Rivlin to Congress, October 5, 1977, on the potential energy savings of urban transportation. Alice Rivlin profile at LittleSis Statements and Speeches of Alice M. Rivlin 1931 births 2019 deaths 20th-century American economists 20th-century American women 21st-century American economists 21st-century American women American people of Cornish descent American women economists Brookings Institution people Bryn Mawr College alumni Clinton administration cabinet members Deaths from cancer in Washington, D.C. Directors of the Congressional Budget Office Directors of the Office of Management and Budget Distinguished Fellows of the American Economic Association Economists from Pennsylvania Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences MacArthur Fellows Madeira School alumni McCourt School of Public Policy faculty Obama administration personnel Presidents of the American Economic Association Radcliffe College alumni Vice Chairs of the Federal Reserve Washington, D.C., Democrats Women members of the Cabinet of the United States Writers from Bloomington, Indiana Writers from Philadelphia