Blank, Rebecca M.

Rebecca M. Blank is former Robert Kerr Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and former Dean of the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Most recently, she coedited "Insufficient Funds: Savings, Asset, Credit and Banking Among Low-Income Households" and "Working and Poor: How Economic and Policy Changes are Affecting Low-Wage Workers." She is also the author of "It Takes a Nation: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty, "among other books.