Data and Indicators
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Did Increased Unemployment Payments Cause People to Reject Job Offers?
The additional $600 in Pandemic Unemployment Compensation payments relieved the financial burden of those most in need without dissuading a return to work. A job is worth much more than temporary unemployment insurance payments.
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COVID-19 Impacts on the Small-to-Medium Enterprise Credit Landscape
Small- and medium-size enterprises provide just under half of all jobs amongst employers in our District. Here’s a glance at how COVID-19 impacted their businesses during that time.
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How Did COVID-19 Affect Real Estate Lending in the First Quarter of 2020?
Here are 10 things to know about how COVID-19 impacted residential and commercial real estate values, vacancies, and lender outlooks in the first quarter.
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The New Future of Work
Join San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly, Arianna Huffington (Thrive Global), Erica Brescia (GitHub), and Nick Bloom (Stanford; National Bureau of Economic Research) for a one-hour conversation on August 20.
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Strengthening Financial Health in Times of Crisis
COVID-19 makes it clearer than ever that inclusion in the financial system is critical for households and businesses to access timely relief funds. Distributing funds at scale, however, presents numerous challenges, including issues related to technology and communication. To explore what it takes to have an inclusive financial system, Laura Choi sat down with Leigh Phillips, CEO of SaverLife, for a conversation on leveraging fintech, data, and strategic partnerships to strengthen financial health in times of crisis.
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Watch FOMC Rewind: What the Fed’s July 2020 Decision Means for You
How does the Fed’s July 2020 decision affect you? FOMC Rewind breaks it down.
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Fintech Innovation Office Hours
Join us for a virtual fireside chat about digital innovation in financial technology with special guest, Kavita Jain, deputy associate director at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Plus, find out how to request a timeslot during our Fintech Innovation Office Hours with the Board.
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Nonprofits Raise Concerns for Communities and Themselves during COVID-19
Nonprofits serving the Western United States are seeing increased demand and mounting financial pressures from the coronavirus pandemic. Here’s a summary of findings from a recent Federal Reserve survey.
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Overcrowding in the Bay Area: Where the Housing Crisis meets COVID-19
The issue of overcrowded housing has known health consequences and is particularly concerning in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. To better understand the issue of crowding, we examined trends in people moving to more crowded conditions in the Bay Area using data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Consumer Credit Panel / Equifax Data. Here’s what we found.
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Data Rights and Data Protection during COVID-19
The global COVID-19 pandemic brought extraordinary disruption in every aspect of our lives. Still, the private and public sectors can come together to create new systems that can make the United States more resilient.