Jared Bernstein

Did folks know that the tax to fund the program [Social Security] only hits salaries up to $110,000? That means that if…

— Jared Bernstein

Barack Obama is talking about cutting taxes. On net, he is a tax cutter. But the difference between Obama and John McCain…

— Jared Bernstein

The black unemployment rate has to be twice that of the white rate in the US. If the national unemployment rate were…

— Jared Bernstein

With stagnant hourly wages, the only way for working families to get ahead is by working more hours, ... certainly not the…

— Jared Bernstein

The government should be actively enforcing the high road.

— Jared Bernstein

The full employment situation reinforces itself.

— Jared Bernstein

It's a mistake to think that any increase in wages is inflationary and there is substantial room for non-inflationary wage growth, particularly…

— Jared Bernstein

The bottom line is that it's better to run a workforce on security than insecurity.

— Jared Bernstein

What you don't hear from these GOP candidates is that they really can't go after this president on domestic production of oil…

— Jared Bernstein

Where you see immigration competition play out most clearly is among high school dropouts. I'd say there's clearly immigrant competition among the…

— Jared Bernstein

We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers.

— Jared Bernstein