He has worked as a professor at New York University, Columbia University, and Howard University. Bernstein’s main areas of interest are the state, federal, and international economic policies, in particular, the middle-class squeeze, income inequality, as well as mobility trends in low-wage labor markets, employment and earnings, international comparisons, and also poverty. Additionally, he is well known as a critic of free trade agreements like NAFTA (North American Free Trade).
He began serving as a senior official in 1992 at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). He later worked as a deputy chief economist from 1995 to 1996 in the United States Department of Labor. Bernstein later went back to work as a senior economist as well as director of the Living Standards Program the EPI until 2020 when he was appointed by Joe Biden. His delegated job on the vice presidential staff is a new position that was created due to the evaluative nature of the economic challenges faced by Americans.
After his appointment, some journalists said that it go against the more centrist views of the multitude of President-elect Barack Obama’s economic advisers. Moreover, he is on the Congressional Budget Office’s advisory committee. Furthermore, Bernstein serves as a contributor at CNBC. Besides that, he was chosen as the executive director of the Middle-Class Working Families Task Force. Also, Bernstein is in control of the direct management of the project.
Jared Bernstein Other Works
He also works for The American Prospect online as a regular columnist and for The Washington Post and New York Times as an op-ed writer. Furthermore, Bernstein has also worked for the Daily Kos website where he wrote Diary entries.
