Bernanke Says Job Gains Needed to Assure Recovery

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the U.S. needs to see faster job growth for a sufficient time before policy makers can be assured the economic recovery has taken hold.

“With output growth likely to be moderate for a while and with employers reportedly still reluctant to add to their payrolls, it will be several years before the unemployment rate has returned to a more normal level,” Bernanke said today in a speech at the National Press Club in Washington. “Until we see a sustained period of stronger job creation, we cannot consider the recovery to be truly established.”