She said the non-wealthy and people of color were struggling even before the pandemic hit last year.
“People worry about a K-shaped recovery, but well before COVID-19 infected a single American, we were living in a K-shaped economy one where wealth built upon wealth while working families fell farther and farther behind,” Ms. Yellen said. “This is especially true for people of color.”
Ms. Yellen has already won positive marks from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and her confirmation is expected to go relatively smoothly.
In 2014, the U.S. Senate voted 56-26 to confirm her as chair of the Federal Reserve.
Senator Josh Hawley’s book has found a new publisher after he was dumped by the leftists who run Simon & Schuster:
NY TIMES – Regnery Publishing, a conservative publishing house, said Monday that it had picked up a book by Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, after Simon & Schuster ended its contract to publish it in the wake of the assault on the Capitol.
Mr. Hawley had come under criticism for challenging the results of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory and was accused of helping incite the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. His book, “The Tyranny of Big Tech,” is scheduled to be published this spring, Regnery said.
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