The Path to Recovery
The Path to Recovery, Prof. Sachs’ new CNN Opinion series, aims to help readers understand the nation's economic crisis that has been building for decades and the role that the federal government should play in solving it. Here we will post tables, figures, articles, and supplementary blogs to complement the column.
Supporting Materials:
How a Third Reconstruction could end American poverty
May 24, 2021
TABLE 1. A Comparison of the US and Selected Social Democracies
Sources:
Life Expectancy: https://data.oecd.org/healthstat/life-expectancy-at-birth.htm
Poverty Rate: https://data.oecd.org/inequality/poverty-rate.htm
Statutory Minimum Paid Leave Days: https://www.oecd.org/els/soc/PF2_3_Additional_leave_entitlements_of_working_parents.pdf
Paid sick leave: https://www.worldpolicycenter.org/sites/default/files/WORLD%20Report%20-%20Personal%20Medical%20Leave%20OECD%20Country%20Approaches_0.pdf
Hours worked per year: https://data.oecd.org/emp/hours-worked.htm
World Happiness Ranking: https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2021/happiness-trust-and-deaths-under-covid-19/
Government Revenues: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/weo-database/2021/April
Biden’s most important stimulus measure
January 28, 2021
Covid-19 and Unemployment in the United States (Red and Blue States):
Check and un-check boxes in the Layer menu to see maps of unemployment rates and Covid-19 rates in the US.
Sources:
Covid-19 data presented are new cases per 100,000 in the most recent 7 days, from the CDC: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/index.html#cases_casesper100klast7days
Unemployment data is from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Dec 2020): https://www.bls.gov/web/laus/laumstrk.htm.
Map created by Ismini Ethridge and Juliana Bartels.
COVID-19 Globally, By the NumberS:
Further Resources:
National Strategy for the Covid-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness
January 2021
Remarks by President Biden on the American Rescue Plan and Signing of Executive Orders
January 22, 2021
FACT SHEET: President Biden Takes Executive Actions to Tackle the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, Create Jobs, and Restore Scientific Integrity Across Federal Government
January 27, 2021