Why the Fed faces new risks in its inflation fight amid recession fears

Our Alex Williams was mentioned in The Hill by Tobias Burns.

“The unemployment rate has only increased by 1 percent within a year twelve times since World War II. Every time, we saw a recession [and] the unemployment rate continued to increase far beyond the initial 1 percent,” wrote senior economist Alex Williams in a January analysis for Employ America, a think tank that advocates for high employment levels in the U.S. economy.