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nytimes.com - 12/22/2008

Obama Announces Task Force to Assist Middle-Class Families

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Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. said the group would measure success by whether the middle class was growing and prospering. >

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abcnews.go.com - 12/21/2008

Biden to Chair White House Task Force on Middle Class

— abcnews.go.com — In an exclusive interview airing on "This Week" Sunday, Vice President-elect Joe Biden told ABC's George Stephanopoulos... that he is going to chair a "middle-class task force" that will determine how the Obama administration's policies are affecting ... (more) Biden to Chair White House Task Force on Middle Class

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yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 12/21/2008

Obama Announces Working Families Task Force

— yglesias.thinkprogress.org — Transition announcement today that Barack Obama intends to form a White House Task Force on Working Families,... to be chaired by Joe Biden and to include “the Secretaries of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Commerce, as well as ... (more) Obama Announces Working Families Task Force

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huffingtonpost.com - 12/21/2008

Biden To Chair White House Middle Class Task Force

— huffingtonpost.com — WASHINGTON — Vice President-elect Joe Biden will oversee a task force that will make recommendations on how... to build the ranks of the middle class, that ambiguously defined segment of society in which most Americans identify themselves.  ... (more) Biden To Chair White House Middle Class Task Force

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Asking the right questions
Political Animal — ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS.... It's not yet clear what this new task force will do, but the goals are certainly encouraging. President-elect Barack Obama on Sunday announced the creation of a task force to bolster the standard of living of middle-class and working families in America, tapping Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. to lead the effort with four members of the cabinet. "Our charge is to look at existing and future policies across the board and use a yardstick to measure how they are impacting the working- and middle-class families," Mr. Biden said in a ...

Progressive Breakfast: Wages Falling, Jobs Vanishing, Econ Package Growing
LiberalOasis : The Blog — ... NYT: "[Obama] announced the creation of a task force to bolster the standard of living of middle-class and working families in America, tapping [VP Biden] to lead the effort with four members of the cabinet. 'Our charge is to look at existing and future policies across the board and use a yardstick to measure how they are impacting the working- and middle-class families,' Mr. Biden said in a statement on Sunday. 'Is the number of these families growing? Are they prospering?'" ...

Hannity's Soldiers Go to War Against Biden's Working Families Task Force
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — AN ONGOING BUZZFLASH SERIES ON THE GOP ECONOMIC WAR AGAINST AMERICAN WORKING FAMILIES by Meg White On Sunday, President-elect Barack Obama announced the formation of a new task force to help determine how to better serve the needs of working class families. Vice President-elect Joe Biden will head up the task force, the first example of a concrete role for him beyond advisor in the incoming Obama Administration. Of course, this announcement gave the right wing reason to lash out at working class people under the guise of politics. It started with Sean Hannity's ...