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Beyond the Numbers: Listening to Higher Education Leaders about Post-Pandemic Challenges
The pandemic severely disrupted universities and community colleges. In a recent roundtable with President Mary Daly, Twelfth District higher education leaders discussed the significant challenges they continue to grapple with.
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Questions on Inflation and the Economy? Watch the Quick Clips from Ask the SF Fed
Questions on Inflation and the Economy? Watch the Quick Clips from Ask the SF Fed. Sylvain Leduc, Director of Economic Research, answered a set of pre-submitted questions from the public during our event on February 7, 2023.
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Disaster Recovery in Northern California
At the five-year anniversary of the Tubbs Fire, the SF Fed visited a redevelopment site in Santa Rosa and spoke with community leaders about the progress being made and the challenges they continue to face in rebuilding. Here’s what we learned.
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Watch FOMC Rewind: What the Fed’s February 2023 Policy Decision Means for You
What was the Fed’s February 2023 policy decision? And how does it affect you? FOMC Rewind breaks it down.
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A Conversation with Mark Gould on FedNow and the Future of Payments
Mark Gould, the Federal Reserve System’s chief payments executive, discusses the launch of FedNow and why he’s excited to deliver the closing remarks at the 2023 Fintech: Innovation, Inclusion and Risks Conference in Santa Clara, CA.
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Rising Interest Rates Dampen District’s Housing Market Activity
Supervision + Credit’s quarterly First Glance 12L report that rising interest rates weighed on District housing market activity, with prices declining since May and existing home sales settling at their lowest level since early 2008.
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Personal Finance Lesson Plan
This lesson introduces students to the connection between education attainment and earning potential. Students will participate in a classroom activity where they develop a budget according to a given scenario.
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How Does Worker Health and Safety Matter for Full Employment?
In this interview, Visiting Scholar Lola Loustaunau discusses her research with food processing workers in Oregon and Washington, how worker health and safety relates to full employment, ways to address barriers workers face, and COVID-19’s impact on workers in essential industries.
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Finding a Way to Measure How Tight Monetary Policy Is
How can we gauge the tightness of monetary policy? The SF Fed’s new monthly Proxy Funds Rate page focuses on financial market indicators to measure monetary policy tightness beyond what the federal funds rate level can show.
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Perspectives from Idaho
To succeed at the highest level, and to be inclusive so that everyone in a community can participate in that success, we need to work collaboratively. Leilani Barnett shares highlights from the Idaho Rural Success Summit, a cross-sector collaboration, which sought to spotlight successful examples of rural community development.