Dealing with mass unemployment
We speak to those who argue governments need to radically rethink how best to help the growing ranks of unemployed.
It鈥檚 estimated that the coronavirus pandemic will leave a quarter of a billion people out of work this year. Many of the jobs lost may never come back. Elisabeth Reynolds at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology says governments must take more radical action.
And with its generous benefits system and flexible jobs market, what can Denmark teach us about navigating the post-Covid jobs landscape? We ask Jacob Kirkegaard, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute.
Photo: A man stands in front of the closed offices of the New York State Department of Labour (Credit: Getty Images).
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