Fixing the economic system, for everybody: The nice rebuild

The Covid-19 pandemic is a tragedy, a large coverage failure, and an existential risk to the livelihood and well being of thousands and thousands of People — with the ache disproportionality falling on Black People.

An issue this huge calls for a daring answer.

With greater than 5 million instances worldwide, 165,000 People useless, greater than 16 million US jobs eradicated, and colleges and companies shuttered, half measures received’t lower it. It didn’t need to be this manner. Nonetheless, there’s nonetheless a lot we are able to do to recuperate — and never simply recuperate, however rebuild.

Tapping the voices of distinguished American thinkers, economists, and policymakers, The Nice Rebuild imagines how we may marshal the facility of the federal authorities and the potential of its residents to battle again in opposition to the catastrophic results of Covid-19, and within the course of create a system steeped in equity, inclusion, and sustainability.

The Nice Rebuild is made doable due to help from Omidyar Community, a social impression enterprise that works to reimagine crucial techniques and the concepts that govern them, and to construct extra inclusive and equitable societies. All Nice Rebuild content material is editorially unbiased and produced by our journalists.

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The failed dream of the American small enterprise

Small companies have been as soon as pillars of communities, however financial and systemic forces left many combating for survival. Then got here the pandemic.

By Laura Entis