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If nominated, she could face opposition from Senate Republicans who have repeatedly expressed concern that the Fed’s campaign would destabilize financial markets and make controlling the pace of inflation more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people read Janet Yellen’s speeches as saying that she puts a higher weight on joblessness compared to inflation” than the typical member of the Fed’s policy-making committee, said Vincent Reinhart, formerly the head of the Fed’s monetary policy staff and now the chief United States economist at Morgan Stanley. “And that includes Ben Bernanke.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->The question of her candidacy has also become embroiled with gender politics, as she would be the first woman to lead the Federal Reserve. 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Again from the Times:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Mr. Greenspan said that he continued to hold Ms. Yellen in high regard. “I did listen to her more carefully because she articulates her position in a way that you can follow it analytically,” he said in an interview. “Intuitions are useless. Janet’s conversation and her presentations were factually based, and that always got my attention.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Andrew Rose is an associate dean and chair of the faculty of UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. Rose has cowritten a number of papers with Yellen and also taught with her. He’s a strong supporter of her candidacy, and earlier this week KQED’s Mina Kim spoke with him to get a sense of her working style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Edited transcript:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mina Kim:\u003c/strong> What is the significance of the role of the Federal Reserve chair?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Andrew Rose:\u003c/strong> The chair leads the Federal Open Market Committee [FOMC], which establishes monetary policy for the U.S. and sets interest rates, bond purchases and things like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kim\u003c/strong>: The position has been described as the first or second most powerful position on the planet…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rose:\u003c/strong> I think that’s warranted. The president of the United States is clearly more important, but the person who’s responsible for the largest economy in the world and the person who’s also the fireperson in case of a financial crisis somewhere in the world – that’s a very important job indeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kim:\u003c/strong> Yellen has been described as caring deeply about unemployment. Can you talk about how that focus would translate into monetary policy?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rose:\u003c/strong> She’s spent her life doing theory and empirical work in trying understand the sources of unemployment. As a governor and now vice chair of the Fed, she has the ability to influence the rate of unemployment. That’s not to say she ignores inflation; the Federal Reserve has a dual mandate, and she cares about both.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">She was quite calm throughout when I was sure the building was going to collapse and we were going to die together.\n\u003cp>\u003cem>-Andrew Rose on Janet Yellen during the Loma Prieta quake\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kim:\u003c/strong> Current Fed Chair Ben Bernanke faced the daunting task of reversing an economic spiral. What challenges would Yellen face should she be appointed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rose:\u003c/strong> The primary objective is to keep the economic recovery going and if possible to speed it up. Inflation is low and quiescent at this point, and there seems to be no particular reason to worry about it. But the Fed always keeps an eye on inflation. So after keeping the recovery going, the second thing she’ll have to do is eventually reverse the enormous stimulus, the huge injection of money that’s been put into the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kim:\u003c/strong> What set of skills would Yellen bring to that challenge of easing up on the stimulus?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rose:\u003c/strong> She’s an extremely accomplished economist, she has tremendous amount of experience both in monetary policy in general and running the Fed in particular. And she has enormously talented staff at her disposal. She’s also a consensus builder; she’s very persuasive and I don’t think she’ll have problems persuading the FOMC through the force of her arguments to follow her lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kim:\u003c/strong> Yellen’s never steered a major institution through a financial crisis. How important is that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rose:\u003c/strong> Very few people have done that. Thank goodness for that, because we don’t have that many financial crises. She has a lot of experience from the sidelines. She was the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, which has certainly been a major player through the crisis. She also participated when she was a Federal Reserve governor during the Mexico crisis in 1994 and 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each of these crises is basically new unto itself. Ben Bernanke was an awesome choice to lead the Fed. But the crises he had studied from the 1930s were not really that relevant to what happened in 2007 and 2008. He’s basically a very smart, capable guy who spoke to a lot of relevant people, and Janet would be in exactly the same situation should there be another financial crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kim:\u003c/strong> What experiences have you had working with Yellen that are reflective of her leadership?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rose:\u003c/strong> One of the things you do when you write a paper together is you argue about every single word, let alone sentence. The way she could persuade me and others to come around to her point of view was very compelling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I will also say that in a case of a major earthquake, she’s a good person to have next to you, as I know personally from my experience during the Loma Prieta quake in 1989. We were stuck in a doorjamb together, and she didn’t raise her voice. She was quite calm throughout when I was sure the building was going to collapse and we were going to die together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kim:\u003c/strong> Do you think it’s important to Yellen to break the ceiling as the first female chair of the Fed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rose:\u003c/strong> I don’t know if it’s important to her. I don’t think it’s particularly important to the country per se. I think she’s by far the most experienced person ready to lead the Federal Reserve. I believe America should operate like a meritocracy, and that’s the reason I think she should get the job. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/13/111254/rs6682_photo-4-hpf/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111385\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-111385\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/RS6682_photo-4-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"Wauneta Vasco, 77, is pursuing her longtime goal of getting her high school diploma. (Charla Bear/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wauneta Vasco, 77, is pursuing her longtime goal of getting a high school diploma. (Charla Bear/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thousands of adults in California and across the nation are racing to get their GEDs before the high school equivalency exam goes through a major transformation. Next Jan. 1, the multipart test will get more rigorous in an effort to better prepare adults for college and careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the GED Testing Service, the new exam is so different that anyone who hasn't passed the current version by the end of the year will have to start all over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felipe Maya, 31, and his brother, Jesus, 28, started taking GED classes for one simple reason—to get more out of life than working all the time. They say they're stuck stringing together low-wage jobs at a grocery store and a restaurant because, like nearly \u003ca href=\"http://www.otan.us/strategicplanning/pdf/AE-SP-112811.pdf\">one in five adults in California\u003c/a>, they don’t have diplomas or an equivalent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the Maya brothers decided to change that. Every week, they've made a one-hour round-trip trek from their home in Half Moon Bay to the San Mateo Adult School. They've done prep classes and taken the test in phases, passing three parts so far. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Making them better prepared out there in the workforce is better for everybody. Step it up. Let’s go.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Now, the pressure is on. If they don't pass the last two sections before the end of the year, everything they have completed will be invalid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel really stressed sometimes,\" Felipe Maya says. \"Because if I don’t pass those tests, the idea of taking all those tests again, it terrifies me.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>A More Challenging Test\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just starting over that scares Maya. He knows the new test is supposed to be even harder. After looking at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.gedtestingservice.com/educators/itemsampler\">sample questions\u003c/a> online, one in particular really stumped him:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question shows the general chemical equation for cellular respiration: C\u003csub>6\u003c/sub>H\u003csub>12\u003c/sub>O\u003csub>6\u003c/sub> + 6O\u003csub>2\u003c/sub> ---> 6H\u003csub>2\u003c/sub>O + 6CO\u003csub>2\u003c/sub> + energy\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then it asks which statement describes the process in the equation:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>a. Glucose and oxygen combine to produce energy.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>b. Glucose and oxygen combine to produce water and carbon dioxide.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>c. Glucose is broken down in the presence of oxygen to release energy.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>d. Glucose is broken down into water and carbon dioxide to store energy.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>(The correct answer? 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It’s now or never.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Improvements for Test-Takers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellen Haworth, who teaches the GED prep classes the Mayas attend, says she was stressed out, too, when she first heard about the change last year (the GED Testing Service \u003ca href=\"http://www.gedtestingservice.com/uploads/files/19f50c2b6f4502e960f9704e1f6dc267.pdf\">announced the revisions\u003c/a> in 2011). Now, she thinks it could really benefit her students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If everybody’s standards go up, the GED should too,\" Haworth says. \"I don’t think it’s fair to say you’re equivalent to the typical high school diploma if we’re left behind. Making them better prepared out there in the workforce is better for everybody. Step it up. Let’s go.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new test has other benefits. Scores will be available the same day instead of waiting up to a week and a half for manual grading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susan Williams, who oversees the GED program at the San Mateo Adult School, says she agrees the new tests will ultimately be a good thing. She just thinks it’ll be a difficult transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you look at a student who comes to GED instruction, they’re coming in at grade eight readability,\" she says. \"They need to be closer to 10th to 11th grade readability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 56,000 adults take the GED every year, according to Diane Hernandez, the state's GED administrator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some have complained that it's not fair that they'll lose any parts of the test they've completed if they don't pass every section by the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randy Trask, president of the GED Testing Service, says that's why the company has been working with testing centers to get the word out, especially to those who've completed four out of the five sections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The reality is when we’re running a national testing program, we have to ensure fairness to all testers,\" Trask says. \"It would be unfair for people starting in 2014 to be competing for the credential with people that didn’t have to meet the same requirements. Each time we’ve gone to a major revision of our test, we’ve had a policy of essentially a hard cut-over to the new test.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Race to the Finish\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Testing centers across the state are filling up. Williams says the San Mateo Adult School anticipates a 25 percent increase in enrollment because of the testing change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says it’s great to reach more people, except many of them don't realize how far behind they are and she has to break it to them that they'll have to take the harder test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do have extra Kleenex in my office just to plan for, because we know it’s emotional,\" she says. \"We know that the hopes and the dreams and the aspirations are tied to passing this high-stakes exam for them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GED might not be referred to often as high stakes, but Williams says it involves a lot more than landing a better job or getting into college. 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