Jared Bernstein

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Jared Bernstein

Former Chief Economic Adviser to the Vice President

Jared Bernstein has served as the Chief Economic Adviser to Vice President Joe Biden since January of 2009. He is an expert in the areas of federal, state, and international economic policies, specifically the middle-class squeeze, income inequality and mobility, trends in employment and earnings, low-wage labor markets, poverty, and international comparisons.

Bernstein has been an economist at the Economic Policy Institute since 1992 and is a renowned author of several books and academic treatises on the economy and the middle class. From 1995-1996, he served as Deputy Chief Economist for the Department of Labor under Labor Secretary Robert Reich. Bernstein is on the Congressional Budget Office's advisory committee and has been a contributor to the financial news station CNBC. He has also taught at Howard University, Columbia University and New York University.

He holds a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts from the Manhattan School of Music; a Masters Degree in Social Work from the Hunter School of Social Work; a Masters Degree in Philosophy and Ph.D. in Social Welfare from Columbia University.

Jared Bernstein's Posts

Poverty

The Lift: Recovery Act Moderates 2009 Poverty Results

September 16, 2010 at 11:51 AM EDT

Jared Bernstein explains that for all the bad news in America's poverty rate, the Recovery Act helped a lot of Americans stay above water.

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Economy

Let's Stop Torturing Facts and Start Working Together

September 6, 2010 at 2:16 PM EDT

Jared Bernstein looks at the latest misleading attack on the Recovery Act and calls for cooperation on further measures to boost the economy.

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Economy

Newsflash! Economists Agree

August 30, 2010 at 12:38 PM EDT

A new piece from USA Today is titled "Economists Agree: Stimulus Created 3 Million Jobs."

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Economy

An Increasingly Awkward Dance

August 25, 2010 at 4:09 PM EDT

Jared Bernstein, Deputy Assistant to the President on Economic Policy, debunks Representative Boehner's claims that the Recovery Act hasn’t created or saved American jobs.

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Economy

Lakes and Rivers: A Middle Class Task Force Visit to the Chrysler Toledo Assembly Complex

August 23, 2010 at 4:00 PM EDT

Vice President Biden travels to Toledo, Ohio, today to hold a Middle Class Task Force event at the Chrysler Toledo Assembly Complex - a state-of-the-art complex that houses the main assembly plant producing the Jeep Wrangler.

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Economy

Who’s Fighting for Whom?

August 12, 2010 at 6:33 PM EDT

Debunking Congressman Boehner's response to a previous debunking of his claims on the Recovery Act.

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Economy

The Myth of Idle Recovery Dollars

August 11, 2010 at 11:37 AM EDT

Debunking the Republican fantasy that there is a large amount of unspent Recovery Act money to be killed, and explaining what would happen if it were.

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Economy

Help Where It's Needed

August 4, 2010 at 11:05 AM EDT

Jared Bernstein, Chief Economic Advisor to the Vice President, debunks another misunderstanding of the Recovery Act and where the help has been going.

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Economy

Protecting Middle-Class Consumers from Unfair Business Practices

August 3, 2010 at 2:30 PM EDT

Jared Bernstein, Chief Economic Advisor to the Vice President, discusses the Middle Class Task Force meeting on protecting American households from deceptive practices.

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Economy

There They Go Again: Two Senators Continue False and Misleading Attacks on Recovery Act

August 3, 2010 at 9:53 AM EDT

Jared Bernstein, Chief Economic Advisor to the Vice President, debunks the latest recycled attack on the Recovery Act from Senators John McCain and Tom Coburn.

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