Biden Picks Jared Bernstein as His Top Economics Adviser

Brad Haynes reports on the transition. Vice President-elect Joe Biden picked Jared Bernstein ,a prominent liberal economist, as his top economic adviser. Bernstein expands the new administration’s chorus of economists with a voice clearly to the left of the centrist advisers announced so far. Bernstein was a deputy chief economist under President Bill Clinton ’s Labor Secretary Robert Reich , and is now a senior economist at the union-funded Economic Policy Institute, where he has studied income inequality, low-wage labor markets and poverty. Biden called Bernstein “a proven, passionate advocate for raising the incomes of middle class families,” in announcing him as his chief economist and economic policy adviser, a new post. “His expertise and background in a wide range of domestic and international economic policies will be an invaluable asset to the Obama-Biden Administration.” In addition to his think tank reports and magazine articles , Bernstein has also been a consistent ... (link)