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Jared Bernstein joined the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in May 2011 as a Senior Fellow. From 2009 to 2011, Bernstein was the Chief Economist and Economic Adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, executive director of the White House Task Force on the Middle Class, and a member of President Obama's economic team.
Bernstein's areas of expertise include federal and state economic and fiscal policies, income inequality and mobility, trends in employment and earnings, international comparisons, and the analysis of financial and housing markets.
Prior to joining the Obama administration, Bernstein was a senior economist and the director of the Living Standards Program at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.
Between 1995 and 1996, he held the post of deputy chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor.
He is the author and coauthor of numerous books for both popular and academic audiences, including "Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed?" and nine editions of "The State of Working America." Bernstein has published extensively in various venues, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, and Research in Economics and Statistics. He is an on-air commentator for the cable stations CNBC and MSNBC and hosts jaredbernsteinblog.com.
Bernstein holds a PhD in Social Welfare from Columbia University.
SHARE Monday, April 29, 2013 This FAA Sequester Vote Doesn't Smell Right
Washington politicians always manage to take care of themselves & their funders while their efforts to serve the rest of us are a mixed blessing.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 18, 2012 Some Governors Are Getting It Right on Taxes
Oftentimes in public policy, particularly when national politics is frozen, you have to look to governors and states to see what's coming. They can't run budget deficits, it's harder for them to run around squawking about stuff without doing much about it--basically, they've got to run stuff like education, protective services, infrastructure programs.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Inequality, the Middle Class, and Growth
Social & economic inequality is accelerating in America stunting growth & destroying the middle class.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 2, 2011 Our Crumbling Infrastructure: This Time, It's Personal
To ignore needed public investments based on anti-spending ideology is to create an infrastructure deficit much more worrisome and damaging to the long-term economic well-being of this nation than the federal budget deficit.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 18, 2008 Risk Manager in Chief
This article takes a look at decisions made by leaders in an interesting way. A risk assessment evaluation of decision making reveals a variety of underlying weaknesses that put our economy and our democracy at risk
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 15, 2008 Again With the Trickle Down!?!
If your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. That's what came to mind this AM when I read that John McCain's plan to address the ailing economy includes a big cut in the capital gains tax rate, from 15% to 7.5% for the next two years. How wrongheaded is this? Let me count the ways.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 31, 2008 Why McCain's Wealth Matters
It's not just that McCain can't relate to have nots, it's that he doesn't really want to.