HEADLINES & GLOBAL NEWS
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Feb 08, 2021 12:40 PM EST
The U.S. will return to full employment in the next year if President Joe Biden's relief package is implemented, according to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Sunday.
Full Employment
Full employment refers to an economy wherein the unemployment rate is equivalent to the non-accelerating inflation rate of employment.
Republicans dismissed the $1.9 trillion stimulus package as wasteful.
According to Yellen on CNN's "State of the Union," "If we don't provide additional support, the unemployment rate is going to stay elevated for years to come. It would take until 2025 in order to get the unemployment rate down to 4% again. We would have a long, slow recovery like we did after the financial crisis," reported HuffPost.