WASHINGTON — Nearly 650,000 jobs have been saved or created under President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan, the government said Friday, a...
Jared Bernstein | Posted 11.22.2009 | Business
It's all too easy to see why failing to reform our financial system could be devastating to the middle class. So the debate over financial regulatory reform must not be an isolated debate solely involving regulators and traders.
Jared Bernstein | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business
The Recovery Act is working, and if you're only noticing that things are still bad without noticing that they're getting better, you're looking at the wrong benchmarks.
Jared Bernstein | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics
Yes, we want to see a GDP recovery take hold as soon as possible. But even then, we won't be done: not until the prosperity we're generating reaches everyone who's contributing to it.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics
One of the leading progressive voices in the Obama White House said on Monday that criticism over the administration's bailout policies from like-mind...
Spotlight On Poverty | Dave Burdick | Posted 05.09.2009 | Green
The Middle Class Task Force, headed up by Vice President Joe Biden, has already had a lot of emphasis on green jobs, and Biden's chief economist isn't...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.22.2009 | Politics
The Vice President's chief economic adviser said Sunday that the White House agreed that "major" energy or health care policy should not be part of th...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.22.2009 | Politics
Jared Bernstein, chief economic adviser to the vice president, offered on Sunday the strongest White House pushback yet to the bonus tax bill passed b...
Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics
The government, like households, must hunker down, stop spending where it can, and plug the hole of offshoring jobs in the ship of state.
Robert Kuttner | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics
On Friday, President Obama, a onetime organizer, had more words to say about unions, and they were the kind of explicit endorsement that we literally haven't heard from a president since FDR's day.
David Corn | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics
With these hawkish, Rubin-esque, middle-of-the-road picks, has Obama abandoned the folks who brought him to the dance?
AP | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics
CHICAGO — Vice President-elect Joe Biden on Friday named Jared Bernstein as his chief economic policy adviser, a new post created as the nation ...
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 12.29.2008 | Politics
We can only hope that Obama balances the smart Rubinauts whom he has picked to lead his economic team with some equally smart pro-Main Street economic minds.
JB Powell | Posted 05.06.2008 | Home
The current economic meltdown can be traced to McCain's financial adviser. McCain wants to further deregulate capital markets and cut taxes. McCain-onomics are Bush-onomics, but more so.
AP | MATT APUZZO and BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE | Posted 10.30.2009 | Business