Rebecca Blank
Template:TOCnestleft Rebecca Margaret Blank is the Henry Carter Adams Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, and Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan. She is also the co-director of the National Poverty Center at the University’s Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy[1].
Rebecca M. Blank is the Henry Carter Adams Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, and Professor of Economics. She is also the co-director of the National Poverty Center at the Ford School, funded by HHS to promote poverty-related research.
In the current academic year (2007-08) she is on leave as the Robert V. Kerr Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution. From 1999-2007 she was dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Prior to coming to Michigan, she served as a Member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, from 1997-1999. She has been Professor of Economics at Northwestern University and served as the first Director of the Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research. Professor Blank’s research has focused on the interaction between the macroeconomy, government anti-poverty programs, and the behavior and well-being of low-income families[2].
She is a faculty affiliate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[3].
Writing
Blank's 1997 book, It Takes A Nation: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty, won the Richard A. Lester Prize for the Outstanding Book in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations. Her more recent work includes the books The New World of Welfare (jointly edited with Ron Haskins, 2001, Brookings Press), Is the Market Moral? (co-authored with William McGurn, 2003, Brookings Press), and Working and Poor (jointly edited with Sheldon Danziger and Robert Schoeni, 2006, Russell Sage Press.)[4].
Economic Policy Institute
Rebecca Blank serves on the Board of Directors of the Economic Policy Institute. From the University of Michigan[5].
Feb. 2009 EFCA statement
On February 24, 2009 Richard B. Freeman, Frank Levy and Lawrence Mishel, issued an Economic Policy Institute Employee Free Choice Act Statement on the Economic Policy Institute website, calling for the passage of the pro labor union Employee Free Choice Act.[6]
Statement endorsers included Rebecca Blank, Brookings Institution.
Obama appointment
In April 2009 Rebecca Blank was nominated by the Obama administration for the position of Under Secretary for Economic Affairs in the DOC and confirmed in May 2009[7].
References
- ↑ http://www.epi.org/pages/board/
- ↑ http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/1490
- ↑ http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/1490
- ↑ http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/1490
- ↑ http://www.epi.org/pages/board/
- ↑ EPI Noted economists: The Employee Free Choice Act is needed to restore balance in the labor market, Richard B. Freeman Frank Levy Lawrence Mishel, February 24, 2009
- ↑ Nominations and appointments