LPE and COVID-19: Class, Race, and Inequality

Welcome to day 3 of our COVID-19 series! Today's theme: Class, Race, and Inequality.

Here's what we've been reading:

• Here, Brishen Rogers discusses how COVID-19 has exposed the fragility of labor markets and imagines work in a post-Corona world.

• Shaun Ossei-Owusu analyzes the “Politics of Disposability.”

• Over at Demos, Sabeel Rahman discusses “COVID-19 and the Crisis of Racial Capitalism,” while Laura Williamson outlines a plan for “Racially Inclusive Democracy During COVID-19 and Beyond.”

• Is it time for Universal Basic Income? Soomi Lee sure thinks so. For a more detailed account, check out John Lanchester’s case for UBI.

• Prof. Mehra Baradaran explains why America’s aversion to welfare will only entrench inequality and make a bad economic crisis worse.

• Veena Dubal appeared on NPRto discuss COVID-19 and the gig economy.

Check back here tomorrow for day four of our COVID-19 series: Antitrust and Competition.