98 Quotes by Jared Bernstein

My problem with the Bush plan is that it's so ideologically problematic that now these guys are going to have to argue about it for a month or two. That's bad because we need to inject stimulus into the economy quickly.

(The) 43,000 new jobs is much too small a number to lower the unemployment number. The unemployment report underscores that the recovery is off to a slow start. The Fed will most certainly not raise (interest) rates in the near-term.

will make it harder for working families to truly get ahead.

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.

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

The problem isn't simply that families are facing higher prices, particularly at the pump. It's also that they're facing lower wages. If wages were keeping pace with inflation, the pinch wouldn't be as hard.

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.

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.

You don't need an equitable distribution to have a sustainable recovery.