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Weekend reading: Executive orders to ensure a strong economic recovery edition

Coronavirus Recession

Jobs report: a year into the coronavirus recession, employment losses have been greatest for Black women workers and Latinx workers

Inequality & MobilityLabor
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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: February 2021 Report Edition

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Coronavirus Recession

New Great Recession data suggest Congress should go big to spur a broad-based, sustained U.S. economic recovery

Inequality & MobilityTax & Macroeconomics
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Executive action to-do list for achieving strong, stable, and broad-based U.S. economic growth

Inequality & Mobility
Executive action to spur equitable growth

Executive actions to improve U.S. economic measurements

Inequality & Mobility
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Brad DeLong: Worthy reads on equitable growth, February 23–March 1, 2021

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Research on race and consumption shows why racial disparities in Unemployment Insurance receipt are detrimental to economic recovery in the United States

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Weekend reading: Systemic racism’s impact on Black Americans’ economic outcomes edition