Biden to chair middle-class task force

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20081221/pl_politico/16778

Vice President-elect Joe Biden announced Sunday that he will chair a task force charged with determining the status of the middle class — whether it's growing or shrinking, better or worse off.

It will be Biden's first major task as vice president.

"And we'll look at everything from college affordability to after-school programs — the things that affect people's daily lives," Biden said in an interview airing Sunday on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." "I will be the guy honchoing that policy."

Biden characterized his leading the task force as "a discrete job that is going to last only for a certain period of time." He also said he will focus on another area he knows well — foreign policy — and defended his lack of visibility so far during the transition.

"Every single solitary appointment he has made thus far I have been in the room," Biden said of decisions made by President-elect Barack Obama. "The recommendations I have made in most cases coincidentally have been the recommendations that he's picked. Not because I made them but because we think a lot alike. I have been there for every one of those meetings."


Biden to oversee efforts aimed at middle class
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[opihimoimoi]

1. If this is true and he chairs the Crew...he will be saving America ...for its all about the Middle

Class.....this is where we are hurting....no middle class...no Nation

[notadmblnd]

2. Not only should he look into the things that affect people's everyday lives....

...he should look into some everyday people's lives. I'm saying that maybe some of the middle class who have seen their lives effected by these everyday things, should have his ear.

[ThomWV]

3. You know, if done right this could be the floorplan for a new America

Combine this with a return to the authority of the Constitution and you have a winner. It all depends on what is done with his findings.

[Kip Humphrey]

4. "whether it's growing or shrinking, better or worse off" should take all of 30 seconds to figure out

. Repairing the Middle Class will take a lot longer.