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@HBoushey
Apr 23, 2020 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
New @Medium post - How a modern-day Works Progress Administration could prevent a #coronavirus depression in the United States
medium.com/@heatherboushe…
Our economy cannot recover without restoring the public’s confidence that the spread of the virus has been contained.

Employing idled workers to implement track and trace nationwide provides those out of work with a meaingful job opportunity and will speed economic recovery.
The idea dates back to the Great Depression, when DOL Secretary #FrancesPerkins helped launch the Works Progress Administration.

We stand on the precipice of another grave crisis, but we have the benefit of looking back in time for potential solutions. medium.com/@hup/the-woman…

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Nov 17, 2020
I talked to @kairyssdal @Marketplace about misplaced concern over #austerity—and why handwringing about deficits now will prolong the economic suffering of millions of Americans.

Now is not the time to pull back on spending.
marketplace.org/2020/11/16/wha…

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The risk of doing too little to support families & businesses will far outweigh the risk of doing too much

We need to continue to pump money into the economy if we are going to avoid a coronavirus recession that makes the Great Recession a fond memory heatherboushey.medium.com/beware-of-aust… 2/
The premature pullback in government support during the Great Recession is why it took a full decade to return to pre-crisis unemployment rates.

As the past decade has shown, austerity was not the answer then, and it surely is not now.
epi.org/publication/wh… 3/
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Nov 15, 2020
Mulling this article over this morning: nytimes.com/2020/11/14/bus… A thread ...
Our economy is in trouble. Why? The virus has roared back. With COVID-19 cases again overwhelming hospitals, leaders across the country are, for the sake of us all, limiting large gatherings and activities that cause the disease to spread – like indoor dining. 1/8
The fact that the United States has failed to contain the virus means that millions of esp small biz & workers will (again) see their incomes fall & livelihoods potentially destroyed. Congress must put together a robust relief plan to support communities through this crisis. 2/8
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Oct 2, 2020
New employment data -- some quick reactions ... 1/n
From the BLS Commissioner's Report: "Employment in public- and private-sector education declined in September [relative to August]. In the public sector, employment in education fell by 49,000 in state government and by 231,000 in local government." bls.gov/news.release/j…
Ah ... I should start w/the headline: The economy added 661,000 jobs in September, and the unemployment rate fell to 7.9 percent. We are still down 10.7 million jobs relative to February, before the pandemic hit the USA. 3/n
Read 8 tweets
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Aug 30, 2020
I've been overwhelmed by the kind words I’ve gotten in the last 48 hours over this piece by @LedererLedes on my work with @EquitableGrowth and beyond.

A big reason I’ve been fortunate enough to have this career?

Unions.

1/10
I kick off my book Unbound with one of the slogans of the labor movement: For the Many, Not The Few. I was able to get the good education that enabled me to write this because my father was a member of @IAM751 @MachinistsUnion, who fought like hell for their members. 2/10
In the 2000s, I was honored to serve as president of @NonprofitUnion, where we organized think-tank workers. That local now represents @EGLaborUnion. We recognized the union by card check, so staff would not be subjected to Trump’s anti-worker NLRB.
epi.org/blog/the-trump… 3/10
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Aug 22, 2020
Let’s be clear: We need to provide relief to families and small- and medium-sized businesses hit hard by the closures caused by the pandemic. We must ensure relief goes to communities of color hit so hard by this crisis. The way to do this is to borrow at today's low rates 1/18
Unemployment remains in double-digits. & the official rate a likely under-estimate. “True” unemp rate for July closer to 13.8% than the reported 10.2% b/c of misclassification due to pandemic, while rates remain very high for Black & Latino workers 2/18
Yet, the Administration is asleep at the wheel. Enhanced unemployment benefits expired in late July. The amount of benefits workers are receiving have fallen off a cliff: 3/18
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Aug 6, 2020
The recovery is stalling, millions of Americans are facing financial ruin, and our economy is at a precarious tipping point.

Yet some members of Congress are dragging their feet on more stimulus, write @liszhou @ella_nilsen vox.com/2020/8/6/21352… 1/
As the Hutchins Center Fiscal Impact Measure @BrookingsInst shows, the #coronavirus recession has wiped out years of growth, and were it not for government fiscal stimulus, its effects would have been even worse.
brookings.edu/interactives/h… 2/
We are perilously close to something akin to the Depression, and austerity would be catastrophic

Policymakers need to continue to pump money into the economy if we are going to avoid a collapse that makes the Great Recession of 2007–2009 a fond memory
prospect.org/economy/beware… 3/
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