Jared Bernstein

Organization: 
Economic Policy Institute
Position: 
Senior Economist
Areas of Expertise: 
Low-wage labor market, minimum wage, income and wage inequality, poverty, education, family income inequality, trends in employment compensation, Katrina, effects of the Davis Bacon Act on wages and reconstruction, impact of immigration on wages, wage and economic data used to write immigration policy.
  Jared Bernstein (DC): Director, Living Standards Program, Economic Policy Institute; Former Deputy Chief Economist, U.S. Department of Labor; Co-Author, State of Working America 2008/2009 (forthcoming 1/1/09); wrote, �Building an Economic Recovery Package: Creating and Preserving Jobs in America� (10/24/08); job loss in the U.S., economic inequality, cost of living and living wage