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Middle Class Friday
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... Will also sign related executive orders during the event, starting at 10:45 am ET in the East Room of the White House. Plus: Read Biden's USA Today op-ed on why it's time to put the middle class front and center. ...

The Winter of Our Economic Discontent
Firedoglake — ... -- Fewer orders means more layoffs. -- You know it's bad when big law firms are pinching back the billable hour. -- All is not grim: Exxon had record profits. Nice work if you can get it, I suppose. -- President Obama plans to roll back some anti-labor Bush orders this morning, and will then meet with his newly created Middle Class Task Force, after smacking back at Wall Street excesses yesterday. Veep Biden has an op-ed on the middle class in today's USAToday: ...

ThinkFast: January 30, 2009
Think Progress — ... In a USA Today op-ed, Vice President Biden announced that he will “lead a task force on the middle class” that will make sure that the benefits of economic growth “reach the people responsible for it.” Working with the Education, Commerce, Labor and HHS secretaries, Biden’s task force will examine ways “to raise the living standards of middle-class families.” ...

Biden on Obama's middle-class efforts
The Swamp — ... The Obama Administration announces its Middle Class Working Families Task Force at a White House event today and the man who will be in charge of it, Vice President Joe Biden, has an op-ed in USA Today explaining the overarching reasons for it. ...

The Early Word: That Proverbial Train Wreck
The Caucus — ... majority leader in the House. And Vice President Joseph R. Biden offers up his views on ways the administration will take care of the middle class.

Top Thinkers on the Global Economy: Your Daily Briefing
The Washington Note — My New America Foundation colleague Daniel Mandel spends the wee hours of the morning every work day assembling an often amazing, comprehensive roster of some of the best articles on the American economy. I have his permission to forward this daily email to those who would like to have it. I will assemble a listserv and blind copy to those interested in it. If you would like to receive this daily email, send me a private note at "steve@thewashingtonnote.com" or "clemons@newamerica.net" and just say Subcribe/Econ List. I will then send it out to those who are interested after he sends to me. Here was Daniel ...

A Personal Note on Labor and the Middle Class
Taylor Marsh — ... expansion, the middle class participated in very few of the benefits. But now in the midst of this historic economic downturn, the middle class sure is participating in all of the pain. Something is seriously wrong when the economic engine of this nation -€" the great middle class -€" is treated this way. President Obama and I are determined to change this. Quite simply, a strong middle class equals a strong America. We can’t have one without the other. - Vice President Joe Biden ...

Biden Plugs Economic Task Force in Op-Ed
News — ... Vice President Joe Biden plugged his White House economic task force this morning in an op-ed published in USA Today , seeking to address citizens' concerns about the economy. Biden was ...

Biden Heads Up Task Force on Middle Class
The Caucus — ... task force on the middle class. To some who were in Washington on Jan. 29, 2001, the moment could not help but evoke memories of former President George W. Bush’s decision to put his vice president, Dick Cheney in charge of what eventually became a hugely controversial task force on energy. Mr. Biden, who has called Mr. Cheney ‘’the most dangerous vice president we’ve had’’ and has made little secret of his desire not to emulate his predecessor, clearly remembered. The vice president promised his task force will be “fully transparent, totally transparent,’’ a reference ...

Unlike Cheney’s energy task force, Biden’s middle-class task force will be transparent.
Think Progress — ... to restore transparency to an office that was shrouded in secrecy by Dick Cheney. In the latest move, Biden’s new middle-class task force will provide the public with details of ...