The Recovery Summit: How to Build Back Better

In Brief

• The Deck is stacked
  • Inequality has been growing for years and the current crisis is exacerbating underlying symptoms.
• Raise our eyes
  • We must look beyond our immediate environments to understand broader issues and how we are all interconnected.
• Bail out Wall Street or Main Street?
  • This is the opportunity to build back better to create a system that works for all.
• Recovery must be people focused
  • People must see themselves in change in order for it to be meaningful and lasting and in order to begin to repair the democratic crisis.
• Focus should be on women, minorities, youth and marginalized populations
  • Decades of efforts to build equality need to be protected in order to ensure both human rights as well as economic productivity are maintained.
• Build back better, greener
  • There is a great deal of political capital and public will for historic public investments which must be targeted toward decarbonizing economies.