Fed’s Powell: Pandemic recession has particularly hurt women

FEDERAL RESERVE CHAIR Jerome Powell said that pandemic recession has had an unusually harmful economic effect on women, who have been forced to shoulder additional responsibilities for child care. / AP FILE PHOTO/SARAH SILBIGER
WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell expressed concern Monday that the pandemic recession has had an unusually harmful economic effect on women, who have been forced to shoulder additional responsibilities for child care, forcing many of them to leave work. “As schools closed and childcare services shuttered during the worst of the pandemic,…

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