Mar 25, 2021

Arantxa Jarque discusses the importance of having diverse voices represented at the Federal Reserve and in the economics profession in general. She also describes what stands in the way of diversity and how to address these barriers. Jarque is a senior policy economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

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Mar 19, 2021

Claudia Macaluso describes why the United States has a welfare system, how it was designed, and how effective it is at combating poverty, especially during recessions and the downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Macaluso is an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

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Mar 11, 2021

Three economists discuss how they have used high-frequency datasets to track the health of the economy during the COVID-19 pandemic — Marios Karabarbounis and Nicholas Trachter of the Richmond Fed and Adam Blandin of Virginia Commonwealth University. Karabarbounis and Trachter compile the Pandemic Pulse, while Blandin...