EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: 4 p.m., April 10, 2014

EVENT: Economist Rebecca Blank, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will deliver the Citi Foundation Policy Talks @ the Ford School keynote of the “Poverty, Policy, and People: 25 Years of Research and Training at the University of Michigan.”

Blank, dean of U-M’s Ford School of Public Policy from 1999 to 2007, investigates the problem of rising economic inequality in the United States and the various options for addressing it.

After leaving U-M, Blank worked at the Brookings Institution for a year and served in top positions at the U.S. Department of Commerce from 2009 to 2013. She has served as a top economic adviser in the Clinton and Obama administrations.

The Ford School conference will explore the contributions to scholarship and professional development of U-M’s Research and Training Program on Poverty and Public Policy. The event, free and open to the public, is one of the highlights of the Ford School’s year-long centennial celebration.

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PLACE: Rackham Graduate School, 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor

SPONSOR: Ford School of Public Policy

INFORMATION: http://npc.umich.edu/news/events/poverty-policy-people

CONTACT: Laura Lee, (734) 764-8593 or lklee@umich.edu