JARED BERNSTEIN
Senior Economist
Economic Policy Institute

Jared Bernstein is a senior economist and the director of the Living Standards Program at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.
He is the coauthor of the last seven editions of "The State of Working America" as well as "The Benefits of Full Employment: When Markets Work for People."
He writes a regular column for the American Prospect online — and his op-eds have appeared in the New York Times and the Washington Post.
His areas of research include income inequality and mobility, trends in employment and earnings, low-wage labor markets and poverty, international comparisons, and the analysis of federal and state economic policies. Between 1995 and 1996, he held the post of deputy chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor.