http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-0...l-records.html
"In her first speech as Federal Reserve chair, Janet Yellen told the stories of three people who had trouble finding work to illustrate her concern about the unemployed -- omitting the fact that two had criminal records that might have influenced employers' decisions on whether to hire them."
Yellen met personally with both people and knew about their records before the speech, according to a Fed spokeswoman who requested anonymity and declined to comment further.
The fact that Yellen omitted critical details about Poole and Brownlee shows "poor staff work or poor judgment," said Republican strategist Stuart Roy, founder of Strategic Action Public Affairs in Alexandria, Virginia.
Still, he thinks his gap in full-time employment is what's hurting his job prospects most. For that reason, he doesn't think Yellen's speech was misleading.
"She took the parts of that that show that regardless of what type of skill I have, to the employer that didn't matter," Brownlee said. "We need to get more people like Ms. Yellen in office."