Biden’s Economic Team, Emanuel Weighed

ECONOMIC TEAM: With unemployment still high and a new economic slump possible this winter, President-elect Joe Biden has announced a liberal team of economic advisers. His picks have long focused on workers, inequality and the disadvantaged. Bidens nominee for treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, served as chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018, when she placed a greater emphasis than previous Fed chairs on maximizing employment and less focus on price inflation.

EMANUEL WEIGHED: Biden is considering Rahm Emanuel to serve as his transportation secretary. The former Chicago mayor is a substantial and somewhat divisive figure in Democratic Party politics. Some party progressives are critical of Emanuels handling of the police shooting death of Black teenager Laquan McDonald by a white officer when Emanuel was mayor.