East Bay Times
December 2, 2020
Bernstein was Biden’s chief economist and economic advisor, executive director of the White House Task Force on the Middle Class, and a member of President Obama’s economic team from 2009 to 2011, while Biden was vice president. Prior to joining the Obama administration, Bernstein was a senior economist and the director of the Living Standards Program at the Economic Policy Institute, and between 1995 and 1996, he held the post of deputy chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor.
Connecticut Patch
December 2, 2020
Bernstein has also worked as a social worker and a former economist at the think tank Economic Policy Institute.
KXAN
December 2, 2020
Valerie Wilson, del Economic Policy Institute, dijo en un comunicado que el impacto financiero desproporcionado de la pandemia en las comunidades de color refleja, y empeora, las disparidades raciales existentes en el país.
Antes de la crisis, estos grupos ya estaban atrasados en las cifras de empleo y salarios, y la pandemia fue un golpe de gracia. “Las disparidades van a empeorar la brecha de riqueza en el país”, pronosticó.
Hola!
December 2, 2020
There’s been a lot of discussion about where Joe Biden fits on the ideological spectrum. center or left of the party. On the economic front, it’s interesting having observed Joe Biden a populous streak in him, and one of the nominees came from the Economic Policy Institute. Biden gave a speech that I think a lot of folks should look back on two years ago where he talks about the ways he was often at odds with the Obama administration on economic policies and ways he did not think they were focused enough on the needs of working class Americans.
MSNBC Meet The Press Daily
December 1, 2020
“Usually these smaller companies are even worse — because they are almost completely non-union,” Debbie Berkowitz, the worker health and safety director at the National Employment Law Project and a former senior official at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), said in an email. The poultry industry has historically relied on the labor of Black people, poor white women, and, more recently, immigrants, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute.
Arkansas Times
December 1, 2020
Bernstein’s experience includes a role as senior economist and director of the Living Standards Program at the non-partisan Economic Policy Institute; deputy chief economist at the Department of Labor under President Clinton and executive director of the White House Task Force on the Middle Class. He is currently a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and is a former social worker. Bernstein completed his PhD in social welfare at Columbia University.
Quartz
December 1, 2020
Jared Bernstein was Joe Biden’s chief economist when he served as vice president early in the Obama administration. He was responsible for sort of sizing up the damage done by the Great Recession, the financial crisis, and helped to shape the response to that, the recovery plan. He’s now at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. He was previously with the Economic Policy Institute. He’s a left-leaning economist. He’ll serve on the Council of Economic Advisors.
NPR Morning Edition
December 1, 2020
The most sweeping attempt at regulating the J visa program was 2013’s comprehensive immigration reform act, which passed with bipartisan support and is best remembered for expanding the DREAM Act. The bill sought to rein in human trafficking endemic to other guest worker programs by implementing registration requirements for recruiters and making recruitment fees illegal. But the final bill exempted J-1 sponsor organizations from those requirements.
“It really just shows the power of the J-1 lobby,” said Daniel Costa, director of immigration law at the Economic Policy Institute. “This lobby inserted itself into those legislation efforts to make the argument that their entire business model was going to go away if that recruitment registration was implemented.”
The Nation
December 1, 2020