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Janet Yellen: the unemployment rate is not the Committee's definition of what constitutes full employment.

On the recordFebruary 26, 2014
the unemployment rate is not the Committee's definition of what constitutes full employment.
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Janet Yellen
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Yellen clarifies that the Committee's definition of full employment is lower than 6.5 percent.

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