Rebecca Blank, the newly selected UW-Madison chancellor, is a labor economist and once served as co-director of the National Poverty Center. Blank is a member of the United Church of Christ and chaired the committee that wrote, “Christian Faith and Economic Life,” a statement adopted by the general synod of the UCC in 1989.
In 2009 she talked with Sally Steenland about the recession, failures of the market, populist anger, and the role of faith communities during this time of economic turmoil.