18 Facts About Jared Bernstein

Jared Bernstein was born on 1955 and is an American economist.

Jared Bernstein is a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

From 2009 to 2011, Bernstein was the chief economist and economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden in the Obama Administration.

Jared Bernstein is currently a Member of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Biden administration.

In February 2023, President Joe Biden nominated Jared Bernstein to serve as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers.

Jared Bernstein graduated with a bachelor's degree in music from the Manhattan School of Music where he studied double bass with Orin O'Brien.

Jared Bernstein earned a Master of Social Work from Hunter College as well as a master's degree in philosophy and a PhD in social welfare from Columbia University.

Jared Bernstein has taught at Howard University, Columbia University, and New York University.

In 1992, Jared Bernstein started working as a senior official at the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank with a focus on issues affecting low- and middle-income working people.

Jared Bernstein then returned to the EPI, as senior economist and director of the Living Standards Program, until he was selected by Biden.

Jared Bernstein is a contributor at the financial news network CNBC.

Jared Bernstein was appointed executive director of the Middle Class Working Families Task Force and is responsible for direct management of the project.

On September 5,2020, Jared Bernstein was announced to be a member of the advisory council of the Biden-Harris Transition Team, which was planning the presidential transition of Joe Biden.

Subsequently, President Joe Biden selected Jared Bernstein to serve on the Council of Economic Advisors in January 2021.

In February 2023, Jared Bernstein was nominated as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers by President Biden, replacing Cecilia Rouse.

In 2018, Jared Bernstein opened a public dialogue with the proponents of the heterodox branch of economics of Modern Monetary Theory, in which Bill Mitchell, a proponent of MMT, was the first to engage.

Jared Bernstein is a regular columnist for The American Prospect online, a contributor to the CNBC financial news television network, and an op-ed writer in the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Jared Bernstein has written Diary entries on the Daily Kos website.