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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 Joseph Biden in the Obama Administration. He was considered to be a progressive and "a strong advocate for workers." Wikipedia  

✵ 26. December 1955
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Jared Bernstein Quotes

“Politicians use research findings the way a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not for illumination.”

as cited in Jeff Madrick, Seven Bad Ideas (2014), p. 200

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