Stories by Jared Bernstein
Jared Bernstein is a senior economist and director of the Living Standards Program at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington D.C.
McCain's got eight houses and a level of wealth that insulates him from the real lives of 99% of Americans. That's dangerous for a president.
Posted on Aug 27, 2008
Going back to the 1940s, we've never completed an economic expansion where the middle-class family income failed to regain its prior peak.
Posted on Aug 21, 2008
It takes two parents to earn what one did only a few generations ago. Something's gone very wrong.
Posted on Apr 25, 2008
Why is it that our representatives can easily raise endless amounts of money for war, but can't adequately fund human needs?
Posted on Mar 14, 2007
In the wreckage that followed Hurricane Katrina, we saw the failure of Bush's 'You're-on-your-own' economic and social policies.
Posted on May 18, 2006
