Podcast
Pivot
Gene Sperling, former director of the National Economic Council under Presidents Clinton and Obama, discussed his new book, Economic Dignity, and the current economic crisis. He explained that this recession is unlike previous ones, as it's caused by a pandemic rather than economic factors, and that solutions must involve public health measures as well as economic ones.
We are in, I think you would call it jobs depression right now. And I think it is different from virtually not only anything we've seen in our lifetime but even different than the Great Depression in...
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Gene Sperling, former director of the National Economic Council under Presidents Clinton and Obama, discussed his new book, Economic Dignity, and the current economic crisis. He explained that this recession is unlike previous ones, as it's caused by a pandemic rather than economic factors, and that solutions must involve public health measures as well as economic ones.
We are in, I think you would call it jobs depression right now. And I think it is different from virtually not only anything we've seen in our lifetime but even different than the Great Depression in many ways.
It's got to be a public health crisis response.
This is fundamentally different. So this is really an economic survival plan.
This is how do we really care for each other as a people? How do we make sure that our families, people live through this with the dignity that they can support themselves that they can get through?