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Dallas Fed President: Economy Would ‘Grow Faster’ With A Mask Mandate, Unemployment Would Fall
As coronavirus cases surge to record levels across the United States, Dallas Federal Reserve President Robert Kaplan told Fox’s Maria Bartiromo Friday that a national mask mandate would encourage economic growth and push the unemployment rate down. • Kaplan said that mask-wearing would reduce the transmission of the coronavirus (scientific studies have shown this to be true) and as a result, the economy would grow faster and the unemployment rate would fall. • He also noted that policies on mask-wearing have been “uneven” so far in the United States; some regions, like New York and Texas, have adopted mask ... (full story)