Speaker biographies

Jared Bernstein joined the Economic Policy Institute in 1992. He is the author of the new book All Together Now: Common Sense for a Fair Economy. 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. He is the coauthor of eight editions of the book The State of Working America and has published extensively in popular and academic venues, including the New York Times, Washington Post, American Prospect, and Research in Economics and Statistics.

Harry Holzer is a professor of public policy at Georgetown University and a visiting fellow at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. He is a former chief economist for the U.S. Department of Labor and a former professor of economics at Michigan State University. He is a senior affiliate of the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan and a research affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Holzer’s research has focused primarily on the labor market problems of low-wage workers and other disadvantaged groups. His books include The Black Youth Employment Crisis, What Employers Want: Job Prospects for Less-Educated Workers, Employers and Welfare Recipients: The Effects of Welfare Reform in the Workplace, Moving Up or Moving On: Who Advances in the Low-Wage Labor Marke), Reconnecting Disadvantaged Young Men, and Reshaping the Workforce for a Changing Economy.

David Neumark is a professor of economics at the University of California at Irvine. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor. He has held positions at Michigan State University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Federal Reserve Board. He is a labor economist with broad public policy interests including minimum wages and living wages, the Earned Income Tax Credit, discrimination and affirmative action, and the economics of aging.

Alan D. Viard is a resident scholar at AEI. Prior to joining AEI, he was a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and an assistant professor of economics at Ohio State University. He has also worked for the Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Analysis, the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers, and the Joint Committee on Taxation of the U.S. Congress. Viard has written on a wide variety of tax topics including articles discussing federal and state research tax credits.

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