Their answer, according to a new working paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, is simple: numeracy.

根据他们最近为亚特兰大联邦储蓄银行做的一份工作论文显示，答案很简单：识数能力。

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Dennis Lockhart, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, said in recent weeks that this problem is something that keeps him awake at night.

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Anton Braun of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (representing himself and not the Fed) and Douglais Joines of the University of Southern California.

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All rooms have oversized workspaces, bright bathrooms and floor to ceiling windows, and the corner rooms have views of the imposing white marble Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

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