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Alan Berube
Alan Berube is a Fellow at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program. His areas of expertise include urban demographics, tax and banking policies for low-income families and communities, and comparative social policy and demographics in the US and UK. Alan is the author of numerous Brookings publications on the Earned Income Tax Credit and related tax benefits for low-income workers. He oversees the Metro Program’s Living Cities Census Series, for which he has authored several papers and edited two volumes of the Redefining Urban and Suburban America series. Prior to joining Brookings in February 2001, Alan was a policy advisor in the Office of Community Development Policy at the U.S. Treasury Department, where he authored a joint Treasury-HUD study on predatory lending, and developed the First Accounts program to support the development of low-cost bank accounts for unbanked consumers. Prior to that, he was a research assistant at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and a consultant to government clients at Andersen Consulting. Alan holds a Master's in Public Policy from the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, where he serves on the Alumni Board, and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He held an Atlantic Fellowship in Public Policy during Autumn 2004, when he completed research on housing and neighborhoods at the United Kingdom Treasury and the London School of Economics.