Fed Tunes Into Yellen Still Playing Labor-Market Blues
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The Federal Reserve’s policy committee has tuned into Chair Janet Yellen’s beat on the U.S. labor market, and it’s still playing the blues.
The Federal Open Market Committee’s policy statement yesterday diminished the unemployment rate as a measure of progress toward its full-employment goal, saying “a range” of indicators suggest “significant underutilization of labor resources.”