Fed Chair Powell: Wearing masks can lead to 'enormous' economic gains

[Nevilledog]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fed-chair-jerome-powell-wear-a-mask-for-the-economy-202918264.html

Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell said Friday that Americans should wear masks and follow social distancing guidelines to ensure an economic recovery.

“There’s actually enormous economic gains to be had nationwide from people wearing masks and keeping their distance,” Powell told NPR. Powell added that short of a vaccine, such measures enable people to “go back to work and not get sick.”

Powell also spoke about the August jobs report, describing the addition of 1.371 million payrolls in August as “a good one.” The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the new numbers on Friday morning, which also showed the unemployment rate falling to 8.4% — below the street’s expectations.

Powell pointed out that the August gains were not as large as those in May and June.

“I guess I would just say, the recovery is continuing,” Powell said Friday in a clip aired on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” “We do think it will get harder from here because of those areas of the economy that are so directly affected by the pandemic still."

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[liberalla]

1. Economics gains? That's a message drumpf would understand... or should!

[OnDoutside]

3. He's deliberately putting it in terms Trump understands.

[tanyev]

2. But, but teh oxygen deprivation!