{"id":1600,"date":"2014-11-15T07:18:43","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T12:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1600"},"modified":"2014-11-15T07:18:43","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T12:18:43","slug":"activists-fed-up-with-rate-rise-talk-offer-plosser-a-city-tour-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1600","title":{"rendered":"Activists \u2018Fed Up\u2019 With Rate Rise Talk Offer Plosser a City Tour – Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Activists \u2018Fed Up\u2019 With Rate Rise Talk Offer Plosser a City Tour – Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Labor and community organizers meeting with Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen challenged officials who are ready to raise\u00a0interest rates<\/a>\u00a0to first come visit the poorest neighborhoods with them before saying that the economy has recovered.<\/p>\n

Kati Sipp, one of about two dozen activists meeting Yellen, said at a press conference yesterday in front of the central bank in Washington that she would show Philadelphia Fed President\u00a0Charles Plosser<\/a>\u00a0\u201cwhat life is like in this economy\u201d for his city\u2019s unemployed.<\/p>\n

\u201cClearly Charles Plosser hasn\u2019t been coming out the way that I work,\u201d said Sipp, director of Pennsylvania Working Families. \u201cI work on 60th Street in West Philadelphia in a storefront office, and every single day someone or a couple of people come in to my office because they are looking for work.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokeswoman for the Philadelphia Fed declined to comment.<\/p>\n

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Activists \u2018Fed Up\u2019 With Rate Rise Talk Offer Plosser a City Tour – Bloomberg. Labor and community organizers meeting with Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen challenged officials who are ready to raise\u00a0interest rates\u00a0to first come visit the poorest neighborhoods with them before saying that the economy has recovered. Kati Sipp, one of about two dozen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[246,303,431,451,642],"class_list":["post-1600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-economy","tag-fed","tag-interest-rates","tag-janet-yellen","tag-poverty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1601,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions\/1601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}