Jared Bernstein Quotes

When income growth is concentrated at the top of the income scale, the people at the bottom have a much harder time lifting themselves out of poverty and giving their children a decent start in life. - Jared Bernstein

We've seen we can drive the economy at 4 percent unemployment with strong productivity gains. I won't be satisfied until we're back there. Many working families won't be either, I'd guess. - Jared Bernstein

We're looking at a recession/jobless recovery that's two years old to the day. - Jared Bernstein

We have welcomed past efforts by the Bureau to offer alternative poverty measures. Their most recent release, however, ignores critical innovations and omits essential costs like child care for working parents and thus represents a step backwards. - Jared Bernstein

We did not see the tremendous upsurge in injuries we thought we might get... It gets really difficult when it is tremendously hot during the night - not just when it is really hot days, but when it is really hot weeks. - Jared Bernstein

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

We all agree with that. - Jared Bernstein

Unless working families can give up food and gas, this combination of slow wage growth and faster inflation continues to pinch. - Jared Bernstein

Ultimately unemployment will peak somewhere around 6.2 or 6.3 percent. - Jared Bernstein

This report shows a race between factors boosting net worth such as home ownership and factors pushing the other way such as weak wage growth. Unless we start to see better income growth from jobs and wages, it is hard to see major gains in net worth for the typical family. - Jared Bernstein

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