Aspen Ideas Festival 2012

Aspen Ideas Festival: Reversing the middle class jobs deficit

Alan Krueger, the chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, speaks at the Aspen Ideas Festival about the job situation for middle class Americans. Krueger is a labor economist on leave from Princeton University.

Guests

• Alan Krueger: Chairman of President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers and a member of the cabinet. Professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University. Labor economist, former assistant secretary of the treasury and former chief economist at the US Department of Labor.

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Resources

• Aspen Ideas Festival 2012 website
• about Alan Krueger