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Yellen and Malerba become first female pair to sign US currency

Yellen and Malerba become first female pair to sign US currency

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen helped mark a milestone in United States history on Thursday when she held up a new $5 bill signed for the first time by two women. Yellen’s signature will appear alongside that of U.S. Treasurer Lynn Malerba, the first Native American in that position. Yellen joked …

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Yellen is the first female Treasury Secretary with a signature on the U.S. dollar

Yellen is the first female Treasury Secretary with a signature on the U.S. dollar

WASHINGTON — During a recent appearance on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen was faced with a tricky question: After nearly two years on the job, why is signing her predecessor, Steven T. Mnuchin, was it still scrawled across national currency? The answer, she explained, was a quirk of coinage …

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