Federal Reserve press conference, 2016-03-16 — Chair Janet Yellen

Question (John Heltman, American Banker): Can I follow up, just real quick? Sorry. But do you think that, despite all that progress, that there—why hasn’t that message—why hasn’t—why haven’t these improvements made its way to the public? And perhaps, like, do you find that that is an obstacle either among people that you meet, people in the public, or the representatives in Congress that maybe have this pervasive view that nothing has changed? Is that an obstacle? Is that a problem?
Answer: Well, I think—I think it’s our job as we make these improvements to explain what we’re doing and to try to educate the public about what’s happened, and they may not understand how much has changed. It’s certainly part of my own responsibility to try to explain that to the American people.