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US monetary policymakers are facing a quartet of troubling economic issues: high inflation, a looming recession, bank collapses and a hot labour market. The Fed scaled back the intensity of its inflation-busting rate hikes after recent bank failures, but that reprieve will likely be short. Will the economy hit the ground softly or roughly?
<p><span>It's a pleasure to be with you today to talk about a subject that I experience directly—women's labor force participation.</span><span> I come to this issue with a similar perspective to this Commission, being from a heavily rural state and a small farming and ranching community deep in the Flint Hills of Kansas. But I also have roots here in Arkansas, my husband's family is from Hardy, and my father's mother was from Little Rock. It's really nice to be back in an area where I spent a lot of time growing up.</span></p>