About the Contributors

JARED BERNSTEIN joined the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in May 2011 as a Senior Fellow. From 2009 to 2011, Bernstein was the chief economist and economic advisor to Vice President Joe Biden, executive director of the White House Task Force on the Middle Class, and a member of President Obama’s economic team.

NICHOLAS EBERSTADT, a political economist by training, holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute and is a senior advisor to the National Bureau of Asian Research. He researches and writes extensively on demographics, economic development, and international security. His many books and monographs include A Nation of Takers: America’s Entitlement Epidemic (Templeton Press, 2012). Eberstadt earned his AB, MPA, and PhD at Harvard and his MSc at the London School of Economics. In 2012, he was awarded the Bradley Prize.

HENRY OLSEN, currently a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, has worked in senior executive positions at many center-right think tanks. He most recently served from 2006 to 2013 as vice president and director of the National Research Initiative at the American Enterprise Institute. He previously worked as vice president of programs at the Manhattan Institute and president of the Commonwealth Foundation. Mr. Olsen’s work has been featured in many prominent publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, National Review, and the Weekly Standard. He is the author of the forthcoming book, Ronald Reagan: New Deal Conservative (HarperCollins, 2017).