Job Guarantee for New Zealand: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/covid-19/415421/cat-maclennan-post-covid-19-job-guarantee-scheme-a-bold-solution
I debated Steve Moore, Trump's man to reopen the economy. It was fun and surreal.
You can view the video here: https://twitter.com/linuxie/status/1254035219004481541?s=20. No help for blue states; let them all go bankrupt; open up the Red states and let everyone in the blue states go green with envy. The New Deal was a failure. Lots of other stuff you didn't know.
As an antidote to crazy, Pavlina spoke with the New Yorker on how to reopen the economy:
Recent Books:
A Great Leap Forward: Heterodox Economic Policy for the 21st Century; Randall Wray; Paperback ISBN: 9780128193808; Academic Press; Published Date: 22nd January 2020; https://www.elsevier.com/books/a-great-leap-forward/wray/978-0-12-819380-8
Macroeconomics; Author(s): William Mitchell, L. Randall Wray, Martin Watts; Red Globe Press, Macmillan International; February 2019; https://www.macmillanihe.com/page/detail/Macroeconomics/?K=9781137610669.
Why Minsky Matters: An Introduction to the work of a maverick economist, Princeton University Presshttp://press.princeton.edu/titles/10575.html
Modern Money Theory: a primer on macroeconomics for sovereign monetary systems, Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/modern-money-theory-l-randall-wray/?isb=9781137539908