The writer is a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School
The coronavirus has laid bare a major weakness of the US economy: the low quality of its labour market. The essential workers who kept the economy running during stay-at-home orders — grocery store employees, delivery workers, waste and sanitation workers — may have emerged as heroes, but they certainly are not compensated as such.
While they managed to hang on to their jobs, currently more than 30m Americans are claiming unemployment benefits, the vast majority from low-wage, low-hour sectors. When the virus is contained, we must seize the opportunity to reset as we rebuild.
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