{"id":739492,"date":"2026-07-02T19:14:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T19:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/739492\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T19:14:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T19:14:35","slug":"does-the-new-fed-chair-care-about-jobs-the-indicator-from-planet-money-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/739492\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the new Fed chair care about jobs? : The Indicator from Planet Money : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783019675_229_.png\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/2600x1463+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F82%2F8d%2F3d49845e45e7aa438e8602216777%2F844007a0-01cf-46f2-9299-c63e4534574a.png\" class=\"img\" alt=\"Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh takes questions from reporters during his first news conference as Fed chair.\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Last month, new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh presided over his first interest rate decision and press conference \u2026 but he didn&#8217;t talk much about maximum employment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How much does Kevin Warsh care about the jobs side of the Fed\u2019s dual mandate?<\/p>\n<p>Fact checking by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/1268825622\/sierra-juarez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sierra Juarez<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Your Next Listen\u00a0<br \/>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/lnk.to\/JNkM6RWE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Are we in a new era of permanently higher prices?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Connect with The Indicator <br \/>\u2014 Sign up for <a href=\"https:\/\/npr.org\/indicatornewsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Indicator\u2019s brand new newsletter<\/a><br \/>\u2014 Buy the <a href=\"https:\/\/lnk.to\/i3AukBdDWE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Planet Money book<\/a><br \/>\u2014 Find our <a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/indicator_npr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">socials, YouTube and more<\/a>!<br \/>\u2014 For sponsor-free episodes, <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.npr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">subscribe to NPR+<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images Last month, new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh presided over his first interest rate decision and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-739492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}