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Jerome Powell: “Wage growth comes into really both of those things. It comes into maximum employment. It also comes into inflation.”

On the recordJuly 16, 2018
Wage growth comes into really both of those things. It comes into maximum employment. It also comes into inflation.
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Jerome Powell
Republican · District of Columbia

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Powell connects wage growth to maximum employment and inflation.

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