98 Quotes by 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, about 90% of your salary is tax free when it comes to the payroll tax that funds Soc Sec. That ain't right.

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 done quite a lot. In fact, I would suspect they're environmentalists who are worried that we're doing too much drilling and fracking, in fact. I know that for a fact.

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.

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.

When unemployment is that low, wages are growing broadly, and family incomes are rising. Wage-based demand growth keeps the economy growing at potential.

When the storm hits, you have tremendous devastation. The ripples in the outer reaches of the economy will be visible, but not enough to derail us.

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

Many of our overall indicators are percolating along just fine, but the growth continues to elude many working families, especially those in the middle and low end,

Maybe we were looking under the wrong rock.