Irene S Rubin Author

Irene S. Rubin received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago in 1977. She taught at the University of Maryland College Park from 1979 to 1981, and at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, from 1981 to 2004, when she retired from teaching. She has spent her professional career studying the fiscal problems of federal, state, and local governments. Among her books are Running in the Red: The Political Dynamics of Urban Fiscal Stress; Class Tax and Power: Municipal Budgeting in the United States; Balancing the Federal Budget: Eating the Seed Corn or Trimming the Herds; and The Politics of Public Budgeting.