Timely Topics Economic Equity: Rural Prosperity in Focus
“We believe rural communities will achieve longer-term, more durable success if they look inside their boundaries for opportunities to invest in and f...
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Timely Topics Economic Equity: The Institute for Economic Equity
William M. Rodgers III, vice president and director of the Institute for Economic Equity at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, discusses how the S...
How Lessons from 1944 Bretton Woods Apply to Pandemic Recovery
Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria, senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, discusses how the post-World War II Bretton Woods agreement ap...
Teaching about New Monetary Policy Tools
“We really needed to help move the needle on educational materials, and so, we’re working to provide educators with up-to-date information and quality...
Consumer Debt Trends during the Pandemic
Juan Sanchez, assistant vice president and economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, talks about trends in credit card debt, mortgage debt a...
Meritocracy in College Admissions
“Access to college types can be used as an effective tool for the purpose of fighting inequality,” says Oksana Leukhina, economist and research office...
The Pandemic Worsened Inequities for Working Women. What Now?
Meredith Covington, Supervisory Policy and Risk Analysis manager, and Ana Hernández Kent, Institute for Economic Equity senior researcher, discuss how...
Student Sorting in the College Selection Process
Oksana Leukhina, economist and research officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, talks about the importance of students understanding the col...
Wage Posting and Job Searching
Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria, senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, discusses what firms consider when weighing the decision to po...
Economic Equity: St. Louis Fed Leaders
Four senior executives at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis talk about their careers, challenges they have faced as Black Americans and what organ...