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Obama on the Economy - Jason Furman

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Channel: FORA.tv · 2008 · News & Politics

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Jason Furman, Economic Policy Director for the Barack Obama Presidential campaign, discusses his candidate's position on the economy.

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Jason Furman is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution where he is Director of the Hamilton Project.  Furman is also a Visiting Scholar at New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.  Previously Furman served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy in the Clinton Administration. Furman has been a visiting lecturer at Columbia and Yale Universities. In addition, he served as a Staff Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers, Senior Economic Adviser to the Chief Economist of the World Bank, and Director of Economic Policy for the Kerry-Edwards campaign. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.

Noam Scheiber has been with The New Republic since August, 2000. He holds a master's degree in economics from Oxford University and a B.S. in math from Tulane University. In addition to his work at TNR, Scheiber has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Slate, Salon, The Washington Monthly, the Chicago Tribune, and The Christian Science Monitor. He has appeared on CNN, CNNfn, CNBC and NPR.

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