This story appeared in Bank Digest.
To launch their new Middle Class Prosperity Project, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, held the first in a series of congressional forums to hear directly from leading economists about how the nation's economic system has been rigged against the middle class over the past several decades.
The forum featured Dr. Jared Bernstein, Senior Fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; Dr. Beth Ann Bovino, U.S. Chief Economist at Standard & Poor's Rating Services; Dr. Gerald Jaynes, Professor of Economics and African American Studies at Yale University; and Dr. Joseph E. Stiglitz, University Professor at Columbia University.
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