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Policy Solutions for the Economic Impact of the Novel Coronavirus — Tangible Change for America’s Future

Eric Foster
16 min readMar 16, 2020

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Wage Growth — 1979 to 2018

The current Novel Coronavirus crisis has ripped the cover off of our global economic, health and social systems health and exposed the real challenges that we face, both here in America and across the globe. Congress, the current occupant of the office of President and the Administration agencies are all at different stages of accepting and responding to this crisis. State, County and Local governments are dually impacted and working to find tangible solutions to respond as well. Separate of the health crisis brought by the Novel Coronavirus, the economic challenges are equally significant and potentially longer lasting than the health impacts. The growing levels of economic inequality and economic instability have increased exponentially over the past 40 years and this crisis has laid bare these realities. At the same time, the current crisis has also opened a door for serious policy changes to move the trajectory back to pre-Reagan Supply Side Inequality gaps to level set our economic and health care access platforms to reconnect Americans back to sustainability.

Per extensive policy research conducted over the past twenty years, I am compiling a series of policy prescriptions for addressing the current economic, health, social and trust challenges that are coming…

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Eric Foster
Eric Foster

Written by Eric Foster

I'm a Father, 10th generation American (family roots to South Carolina, 1725 roughly), Political, Public Policy, Economic Theory & Data Analytics SME.

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