Kearney OpEd lays out plan for effective recovery
Summarizes a paper with Aspen Institute Economic Strategy Group
Writing in the Washington Post, Faculty Associate Melissa Kearney lays out a strategy for responding to the COVID pandemic with four important elements:
- support unemployed/underemployed workers;
- bolster wages of low-wage workers & encourage employment;
- lending support to businesses;
- financial support to state/local govt, including for k-12 & higher ed
Her co-authors, Jason Furman, Timothy Geithner, and Glenn Hubbard, represent views from across the political spectrum.
See the Washington Post editorial
See the New York Times commentary
This report was cited in a June 22, 2020, story reporting the results of an AP-NORC poll on views of the economy