Jared Bernstein is a Senior Fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. 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.
Jared's posts at The Winning Words Project:
- Romnomics—Redux: Mitt Romney Only Understands The Economy Of Wall Street
- Where Are the Jobs??$#!?!!
- How To Talk About The Austerity Scheme—It's Dangerous Economics And Cynical Politics
- Half a Century of Poverty in America: We Kicked Its Butt With Social Programs
- The $700 Billion Smoke Screen, Or How The GOP Is Lying To You About Medicare
- How Did This Election Get This Frighteningly Close?
