Joe Biden: The Changing Middle Class

Joe Biden: The Changing Middle Class
Center for American Progress - Center for American Progress
Vice President Joe Biden, Chair of the White House Task Force on Middle Class Families, delivers the opening remarks for a panel of leading scholars discussing the unique challenges facing America's middle class in the 21st century economy.He discusses the many economic developments and trends affecting middle-class families, including changes to the overall labor market in recent decades, shifting gender roles and the need for work-life balance in today's economy, economic inequality and mobility, and the increased gap between productivity and wages.