Fed Listens: Education, Employment, and Monetary Policy in the Third District

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The Federal Reserve is hosting a series of public events to ask for feedback on how we can better achieve our goals of maximum employment and price stability that Congress has assigned us. As part of this effort, the Philadelphia Fed is hosting a half-day listening session to hear from local community and business leaders about how they see the Fed’s policies affecting economic growth and opportunity in the region.

The schedule is as follows:

1:30 p.m.
Welcome Remarks, Patrick T. Harker, President and CEO, Philadelphia Fed

1:40 p.m.
Opening Remarks, Richard H. Clarida, Vice Chair, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

1:45 p.m.
Panel 1: Monetary Policy and Economic Growth
Alex Costabile, Vice President of Strategy, Wawa
Ali Houshmand, President, Rowan University
Julia H. Klein, Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer, C.H. Briggs Company, Inc.
Andre Kurmann, Associate Professor of Economics and Dean’s Research Scholar in Economics, Drexel University

Moderators: Michael Dotsey, Executive Vice President and Director of Research, and Andrew Hill, Economic Education Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

2:45 p.m.
Panel 2: Monetary Policy and Economic Opportunity
Stuart Comstock-Gay, President and CEO, Delaware Community Foundation
Jesse Ergott, President and CEO, NeighborWorks Northeastern Pennsylvania
Stephanie Gambone, Executive Vice President, Philadelphia Youth Network
Omar Woodard, Executive Director, GreenLight Fund Philadelphia

Moderators: Michael Dotsey, Executive Vice President and Director of Research, and Andrew Hill, Economic Education Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

3:45 p.m.
Closing Remarks, Patrick T. Harker

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