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Heather Boushey

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“Build back better and had this really robust economic agenda. And so when we started out at the Council of Economic Advisors, we were thinking a lot about, well, will there be a new variant of the virus? What will that mean for the economy? How does that affect global supply chains? How does school reopenings affect labor supplies? There's a bunch of questions we were thinking about there. And then we also did a lot of work thinking about, well, what does What do all these pieces of build back better mean? How do we craft a set of economic policies that can support and grow America's middle class? That's Joe Biden's North Star. It's what he wanted his economic agenda to really focus on. How do we do that? How do we help people understand how all the pieces of that agenda fit together? So that's a lot of what we did. And quite frankly, a lot of what the Council of Economic Advisors does is help people understand the data.”
2025-09-12 · Masters in Business · Heather Boushey on Rebounding From Covid & Biden's Economic Policies · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And policy analysis? Strictly economic. And what do we do about COVID and what do we do about the economic recovery and how do we think about the economic agenda? I had advised Hillary Clinton as an economic advisor. I was a chief economist for her transition in 2016. So I had some experience in that role when I started helping the Biden campaign. But after he was elected, he announced his econ team. It was a second group of announced hires that he made. And immediately we were announced in early December. And the first question that we had to deal with was, what do we do about COVID? What do we do about the recession? How do we get people back to school and work? How do we make sure everyone is safe but can get the economy back on track? And, you know, the president had said, you know, throughout the campaign that he didn't want to just build back from the pandemic, but that he wanted to.”
2025-09-12 · Masters in Business · Heather Boushey on Rebounding From Covid & Biden's Economic Policies · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Was that like Well, it was very exciting. I joined Joe Biden during his campaign in March of 2020. I started advising him.”
2025-09-12 · Masters in Business · Heather Boushey on Rebounding From Covid & Biden's Economic Policies · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“People on the other side of the aisle now are less likely to be polite to me when I'm testifying. I mean, I haven't testified in a number of years, but I've seen that over my career. So that partisanship has really drilled down into how we treat experts and people who are volunteering, people who are just sharing information. And that is just one of the many indications in our society of how partisan it is.”
2025-09-12 · Masters in Business · Heather Boushey on Rebounding From Covid & Biden's Economic Policies · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I was there in 2008, 2007 into 2008. And so it was the financial crisis. And there was not a lot of partisan happiness in those years on the hill. I will say over my career, I've testified over three dozen times for Congress. Early on in my career, I felt like people on both sides of the aisle were much more polite, much more cognizant of the fact that, you know, as someone who's a researcher and you show up and you've spent all week preparing this testimony and you're ready to ask questions, but you're doing this, you're volunteering your time. You're not being subpoenaed. You're just there to share information. And people on both sides of the aisle would generally be respectful of that. And I definitely have noted over time that”
2025-09-12 · Masters in Business · Heather Boushey on Rebounding From Covid & Biden's Economic Policies · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Probably. I think the question that I have asked my entire career is what creates that opportunity for economic security for America's middle class? How do you make America's middle class grow and thrive? And what stands in the way? And so I've spent a lot of time thinking about government policy, thinking about how we can encourage firms to create those good middle class jobs, what government needs to do when those jobs aren't available or when those jobs don't provide childcare or unemployment benefits or whatever it is that families need.”
2025-09-12 · Masters in Business · Heather Boushey on Rebounding From Covid & Biden's Economic Policies · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And in the early 80s, you know, I lived in a community with a bunch of cul-de-sacs, all new houses had basically been built for the workers, and for the families of Boeing. And in the early 80s, every kid at my bus stop had one or two parents that were pink slipped. They'd been laid off. It was the early 80s, what I know now to be the Volcker recession. And at the time, I was really just struck by how much power this company had over my life and the lives of my friends. And I was really good at math. And over time, I realized that economics was the field that was supposed to have answers to questions like, how is it that, you know, you can have that economic security that I as a kid wanted and wanted for my family?”
2025-09-12 · Masters in Business · Heather Boushey on Rebounding From Covid & Biden's Economic Policies · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Near Seattle, it's north. It's right next to Everett, Washington. My dad worked at the Big Everett Boeing plant, where when I was a kid, they made the 747s. When I was a kid, it was the largest landmass building in the world, has now been overtaken by the Tesla Giga factory.”
2025-09-12 · Masters in Business · Heather Boushey on Rebounding From Covid & Biden's Economic Policies · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I actually wanted to be an economist and run a think tank someday and get to do things like this. I grew up in the Pacific Northwest in a place called Muckletio, Washington.”
2025-09-12 · Masters in Business · Heather Boushey on Rebounding From Covid & Biden's Economic Policies · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source