Another Liberal Academic Type to Join the Administration....More of the Same!

Here's another liberal academic from the college campus joining the Administration...Obama just doesn't get it....It's all about the academic world...not practical experience needed for him...that's why nothings getting any better.

Obama to Nominate Princeton Professor as Head of Economic Advisers Team

Published August 29, 2011 | FoxNews.com

President Obama is nominating Princeton Professor Alan Krueger to be his new chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.
As President Obama prepares his jobs plan speech, he's also filling out his economics team, preparing to nominate Princeton University's Alan Krueger to be chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

Krueger, 50, a labor specialist who served in Obama's Treasury Department in the first two years of the administration, returns to Washington to succeed Austan Goolsbee, who is now back at the University of Chicago.

A senior administration official told Fox News on Monday that Krueger's job will be to provide policy prescriptions on ways to spur unemployment. Obama was expected to announce his nominee, who has already been confirmed by the Senate once, for the post.

Krueger, whose nomination was first revealed by The Wall Street Journal, has reportedly worked on several analyses at Treasury, including the impact of tax incentives to encourage employers to hire, the "cash for clunkers" program to expand vehicle purchases and Build America taxable municipal bonds.

Krueger also worked as the chief economist at the Labor Department during the Clinton administration. He has published studies while at Princeton on job growth in the 2000s, the impact of minimum wage increases on employment rates and studies on terrorists' economic backgrounds.

Krueger will be returning to the administration where Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is the last remaining top official from Obama's original economics team.