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Pillar: Strengthening the Middle Class

03.14.2018 | Blog

When it comes to college, state legislators refuse to pay it forward

By Ben Harris, chief editor of the Biden Forum Mar 14, 2018 After nearly a decade of recovery, most aspects of […]

03.12.2018 | Press

Joe Biden Discusses Income Inequality at Northwestern

Former Vice President Joe Biden delivered a speech Friday on U.S. income inequality and uneven economic growth at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Ben Harris, a visiting associate professor at Kellogg who served as Biden’s chief economist and economic adviser, helped arrange the event and offered a preview of the speech earlier in the week…

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03.07.2018 | Blog

Different choices for thriving communities

By Melody C. Barnes Mar 7, 2018 “They’re coming for us, next,” some long-time residents of north-side Richmond, Virginia, observed […]

02.28.2018 | Blog

Innovative community colleges will strengthen the middle class

By Eloy Ortiz Oakley Feb 28, 2018 There is a troubling divide in the world of work today that threatens […]

02.21.2018 | Blog

Company is community

By Jeni Britton Bauer Feb 21, 2018 Despite being born in New Jersey, and having spent my earliest years on […]

02.14.2018 | Blog

American consumers need a champion

By Terrell McSweeny Feb 14, 2018 The monopoly man is back. He is leading the vanguard of a new antitrust […]

02.07.2018 | Blog

The fight for civil rights is also about economic opportunity

By Seema Nanda Feb 7, 2018 We often compartmentalize the daunting challenges facing this country. One fight is about taxes. […]

01.17.2018 | Blog

Let’s rebuild the middle class by rebuilding our infrastructure

By Ed Wytkind Jan 17, 2018 The middle class has been on a steady slide for decades. Signs of this slide […]

01.24.2018 | Blog

An immigrant’s journey to the middle class

By Muneer Baig Jan 24, 2018 Editor’s note: The Biden Forum is creating a conversation between the middle class and nationally […]

01.31.2018 | Blog

Retail can help rebuild the middle class

By Jim Sinegal Jan 31, 2018 In any conversation about what makes a healthy middle class, the discussion generally centers […]

01.03.2018 | Blog

The unseen cost of unpaid work, and its disproportionate toll on middle class women in America

By Anne-Marie Slaughter Jan 3, 2018 Care is the core of strong families, an educated and active citizenry, and a vibrant […]

01.10.2018 | Blog

Leaping toward the middle class

By Muriel Bowser Jan 10, 2018 Two years ago, Betty Henderson, a native of New Orleans but a longtime Washingtonian who […]

12.20.2017 | Blog

Taming monopolies in the digital age

By Tom Wheeler Dec 20, 2017 Our nation has faced the corrosive power of monopolies before. The lack of competition that […]

12.13.2017 | Blog

The tax bills fail the middle class

By Jason Furman The United States faces a number of pressing economic challenges, perhaps the most fundamental being the subpar growth […]

12.06.2017 | Blog

The Toil Index: Income inequality laid out in one eye-opening chart

By Ben Harris Last week, we launched the Biden Forum to start a conversation about the issues impacting the American middle class […]