PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen will be making a visit to Rhode Island this spring.
Sen. Jack Reed and Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce officials announced Sunday that Yellen will be speaking at the Chamber’s annual Economic Outlook Luncheon on May 22.
Yellen became the first female leader of the Federal Reserve Board last year. The U.S. central bank sets the nation’s monetary policy.
Yellen is an honors graduate of Brown University in Providence, where she received an economics degree in 1967.
Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat, is a senior member of the Senate Banking Committee. He said Yellen’s insight will be valuable as the state considers how to boost jobs and employment and build a stronger local economy.
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