{"id":604643,"date":"2009-11-09T16:09:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T21:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"6233 at http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov"},"modified":"2009-11-09T16:09:03","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T21:09:03","slug":"vice-president-biden-leads-discussion-on-middle-class-families-in-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/604643","title":{"rendered":"Vice President Biden Leads Discussion on Middle Class Families in D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday at the Center for American Progress in Washington D.C., Vice President Biden moderated an in-depth discussion focusing on the long-term, structural challenges facing middle class families in today&rsquo;s economy. Joined by a panel of policy experts, the group focused on broader issues such as the overall labor market in recent decades; shifting gender roles and the need for work-life balance in today&rsquo;s economy; economic inequality and mobility; the increased gap between productivity and wages, and much more.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Going forward, the Middle Class Task Force will continue working with these panelists, among other outside experts, developing policy ideas to help lift the living standards of working families. &nbsp;As the Vice President put it Thursday: &quot;That dynamic&mdash;where the economy&rsquo;s moving forward as middle class families fall back&mdash;that just doesn&rsquo;t work for the president, for me, and, certainly, for millions of families who are finding the system to be working against them, not for them.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed\">\n<div class=\"embed\">\n  <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/embedded_img_full\/audio-video\/video_thumbnail\/110909_MCTF_CAP_Thumb2.jpg?resize=560%2C315\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"imagecache imagecache-embedded_img_full\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" \/>  <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/photos-and-video\/video\/vp-biden-leads-discussion-middle-class-families\">Click here to see the video.<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Terrell McSweeny is Domestic Policy Advisor to the Vice President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday at the Center for American Progress in Washington D.C., Vice President Biden moderated an in-depth discussion focusing on the long-term, structural challenges facing middle class families in today&rsquo;s economy. Joined by a panel of policy experts, the group focused on broader issues such as the overall labor market in recent decades; shifting gender [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2xij","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}