huffingtonpost.com - 12/5/2008
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Of the 10 expansions since 1949, as measured from the end of the recession (trough) to the end of the expansion (peak), the expansion from 2001 through last year ranks last in average growth of GDP, investment, employment growth, and employee compensation. Despite [supply-side] tax changes that ...
dailykos.com - 12/5/2008
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dailykos.com —
Jared Bernstein, the director of the Living Standards
Program at the Economic Policy Institute, is a former...
U.S. Labor Department deputy chief economist and co-author of seven editions of The State of Working America.
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dailykos.com - 12/6/2008
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dailykos.com —
Looks like the first Kossack has been named
to the new administration--if you don't count Barack Obama...
himself. Jared Bernstein has been named chief economist and economic policy advisor to Vice President-Elect Joe Biden. Joe Biden issued a ...
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Jared Bernstein named as Biden economic advisor
thinkprogress.org - 12/5/2008
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thinkprogress.org —
Vice President-elect Joseph Biden has just announced that
Jared Bernstein , Director of the Living Standards program...
at the Economic Policy Institute, will fill the new position of Chief Economist and Economic Policy Advisor to the Vice President. ...
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Biden taps progressive economist Jared Bernstein as top ...
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Biden taps progressive economist Jared Bernstein as top adviser.
Think Progress —
... , with expertise on the middle-class squeeze, income inequality and mobility, low-wage labor markets, and poverty. In May, Bernstein wrote on Huffington Post that it’s now time for progressives to govern after years of conservative failures: ...
One good things happen to good economists
Political Animal —
... of this great Bernstein post from earlier this year. Regarding the variables that matter most to working families, the neocon experiment was a particularly dramatic failure.... The defenders of the status quo will howl in protest: the Democrats blocked us, the terrorist attacks and the war changed everything, we must stay the course to victory! But such rhetoric should be dismissed as what it is: the last, desperate gasps of a dying movement. They've had their turn and they've failed. It is our turn now. Congrats, Jared.— ...
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A Liberal!
eschatonblog.com 12/6/2008 — CNBC tells me that Jared Bernstein will be Biden's chief economist. Didn't know he'd need one, but good choice!
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whitehouse.gov 2/13/2009 — In an introductory blog post, Jared Bernstein, the Executive Director of the Middle Class Task Force and Chief Economist and Economic Policy Advisor to the Vice President, responds to some of your comments and questions.
Biden Picks Jared Berstein as Economic Adviser
voices.washingtonpost.com 12/5/2008 — By Michael D. Shear Jared Bernstein, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, will serve as the chief economic adviser to Vice President Joseph Biden, providing a strong advocate for workers in the White House. Biden announced the appointment ...
Jared Bernstein's Blog | Talking Points Memo |
talkingpointsmemo.com 12/5/2008 — Just a few quick, disjointed thoughts on the bailout, a plan that I, like others, view as fundamentally flawed. First, the chutzpah of Paulson and the administration is astounding. They're saying to Congress, "you'd better do this quick, without ...
Jobs Picture, December 5, 2008
epi.org 12/5/2008 — December 5, 2008 Job losses accelerate at alarming rate in November by Jared Bernstein and Heidi Shierholz with Tobin Marcus The American labor market is losing jobs at a truly alarming rate. Payrolls contracted by over half a million jobs last month ...
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First Read 12/5/2008
From NBC's Mark Murray and Domenico Montanaro In a nod to the Left, Jared Bernstein will serve as chief economist and economic policy adviser to Vice President-elect Biden , the Obama -Biden transition team announced today. “Jared ...