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

- Jared Bernstein

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

- 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 le…

- Jared Bernstein

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

- Jared Bernstein

The black unemployment rate has to be twice that of the white rate in the US. If the national unemployment rate were 6.8 percent, everyone would be f…

- 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 you make a million bucks, abo…

- 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 and gas. He's actually …

- Jared Bernstein

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

- Jared Bernstein

The full employment situation reinforces itself.

- Jared Bernstein