Overall, our approach comprises five main building blocks: •  First, the full accommodation of banks’ liquidity requests at a fixed rate. •  Second, the expansion of the list of assets eligible as collateral. •  Third, the lengthening of the maturities of long-term refinancing operations. •  Fourth, the provision of liquidity in foreign currencies.
9 The Census Bureau estimates that the number of non-employed individuals citing one of these factors as their main reason for not working rose from 2.0 million in wave 34 of the Household Pulse Survey (reflecting data collected from July 21 to August 2) to 4.7 million in wave 37 (reflecting September 1 to September 13). For more information, see https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/household-pulsesurvey/data.html.