Changing the Federal Reserve mandate could provide a down payment to ending racial inequality
- Written by William M. Rodgers III, Professor of Public Policy and Chief Economist, Rutgers University
A Black Lives Matter protester outside the Federal Reserve Bank in New York.Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
The job of slicing up the economic pie in the U.S. has traditionally fallen to Congress, with the Federal Reserve tasked with making sure there is enough to go around. But this could soon change.