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.
10 Ebooks by Rebecca M. Blank
Rebecca M. Blank: Changing Inequality
Rebecca M. Blank offers the first comprehensive analysis of an economic trend that has been reshaping the United States over the past three decades: rapidly rising income inequality. In clear languag …
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€29.99
Rebecca M. Blank: It Takes a Nation
As Americans experiment with dismantling the nation’s welfare system, clichés and slogans proliferate, ranging from charges that the poor are simply lazy to claims that existing antipoverty programs …
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€52.99
Rebecca M. Blank & William McGurn: Is the Market Moral?
In the great tradition of moral argument about the nature of the economic market, Rebecca Blank and William Mc Gurn join to debate the fundamental questionsequality and efficiency, productivity and s …
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€21.81
Rebecca M. Blank & Ron Haskins: New World of Welfare
Congress must reauthorize the sweeping 1996 welfare reform legislation by October 1, 2002. A number of issues that were prominent in the 1995-96 battle over welfare reform are likely to resurface in …
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€71.57
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Measuring Racial Discrimination
Many racial and ethnic groups in the United States, including blacks, Hispanics, Asians, American Indians, and others, have historically faced severe discriminationpervasive and open denial of civil, …
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€56.55
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Measuring Racial Discrimination
Many racial and ethnic groups in the United States, including blacks, Hispanics, Asians, American Indians, and others, have historically faced severe discriminationpervasive and open denial of civil, …
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€44.31
Rebecca M. Blank: Social Protection vs. Economic Flexibility
As the Clinton administration considers major overhauls in health insurance, welfare, and labor market regulation, it is important for economists and policymakers to understand the impact of social a …
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€111.53
Rebecca M. Blank & Sheldon Danziger: Working and Poor
Over the last three decades, large-scale economic developments, such as technological change, the decline in unionization, and changing skill requirements, have exacted their biggest toll on low-wage …
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€44.81
Rebecca M. Blank & Joseph Blasi: Working Nation
The nature of work in the United States is changing dramatically, as new technologies, a global economy, and more demanding investors combine to create a far more competitive marketplace. Corporate e …
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€37.12
Michael S. Barr & Rebecca M. Blank: Insufficient Funds
One in four American adults doesn’t have a bank account. Low-income families lack access to many of the basic financial services middle-class families take for granted and are particularly susceptibl …
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€44.81
