Obama Forms Task Force For Working Families

Featured Guest Blogger December 29th, 2008

Recently, President-elect Barack Obama announced the creation of The White House Task Force on Working Families aimed at helping the working families of America. Vice President-elect Joseph Biden will Chair the Task Force.

Said Obama, “”My administration will be absolutely committed to the future of America’s middle-class and working families. They will be front and center every day in our work in the White House. And this Task Force will be one vehicle we will use to ensure that we never forget that commitment. I think it can make a great contribution to our work, and I’m grateful that the Vice President-elect has agreed to chair it.”

One of the five major goals of the Task Force is to improve work and family balance. To measure the success of the task force, the members will assess whether or not the middle class is ‘growing’ and ‘prospering.’

News of steps that our new administration is taking to remedy the current economic crisis has been popping up over the past couple weeks – in particular, in regard to working families. Along these lines, Biden recently announced that Jared Bernstein of the Economic Policy Institute would be his chief economic policy advisor. So, while the success of this Task Force has yet to be determined, we can remain hopeful that the creation of this group is evidence of forward thinking for working families.