Segments From This Episode

• Texas, Mississippi lift COVID mask mandates

  by David Brancaccio and Nancy Marshall-Genzer

  

  Texas businesses can open at 100% capacity in a week. In Mississippi, mask and distancing recommendations are now in place.

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• The numbers for private payroll growth in February don't look good

  We’ll get a better understanding of the employment situation Friday when the government’s numbers are out. But this initial reading on private payrolls from ADP missed estimates. “It’s certainly a disappointment for the market,” said Susan Schmidt, head of U.S. equities at Aviva Investors. “We did see an increase in services in this report. But still, it’s going to be a tough slog ahead if we don’t get better job numbers going forward.”

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• Did the Federal Reserve make economic inequality worse?

  by David Brancaccio and Daniel Shin

  

  Fed watcher Karen Petrou believes so, and she says the Fed can fight inequality with targeted policies.

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