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Jared Bernstein: It's Our Turn Now
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 ...
Jared Bernstein's Diary Feeds
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. (more) Jared Bernstein's Diary Feeds
Jared Bernstein named as Biden economic advisor
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 ... (more) Jared Bernstein named as Biden economic advisor
Biden taps progressive economist Jared Bernstein as top adviser.
Biden taps progressive economist Jared Bernstein as top adviser.
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. ... (more) 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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