In the penultimate episode of our series America’s Public Health Experiment, Vox policy reporter Jerusalem Demsas talks to Arnab Datta, senior counsel at Employ America, about automatic stabilizers: what they are and how they could help during a crisis that affects the economy, such as a global pandemic.
References:
Vox's Emily Stewart on Democrats abandoning automatic stabilizers
Recession Ready: Fiscal Policies to Stabilize the American Economy
Structuring Federal Aid To States As An Automatic (And Autonomous) Stabilizer
A Historic Decrease in Poverty
GOP Governors Reject Extra Federal Unemployment Payments
Host:
Jerusalem Demsas (@jerusalemdemsas), policy reporter, Vox
Credits:
Sofi LaLonde, producer & engineer
Libby Nelson, editorial adviser
Amber Hall, deputy editorial director of talk podcasts
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