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US: Powell: There is good deal of interest in our lending facilities. Will
continue to adapt and alter programs if take-up is not what we expect.
- Declines to get into discussion of fiscal relief for state and local
government debt; though notes that 13% of the workforce is employed at the
state/local level ("important thing to consider"). 
- Also declines to respond directly to a question on unemployment insurance
policies, but reiterates hysteresis impact of long-term unemployment - and says
Congress should consider anything that keeps people out of insolvency.

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