Once the United States gets the pandemic under control, the challenge of raising the long-term economic growth rate will resurface. As a part of our new Blueprints series, Martin Baily proposes several approaches that could spur long-term growth, including worker training, immigration reform, public financing of loans and grants for struggling companies, and additional funding for research and development.

“Despite significant steps toward a greater inclusion of women within leadership positions around the world, women leaders nevertheless remain relatively peripheral in network terms which may be confining their power and influence and hindering them from reaching their full potential. Hence, even at the commanding heights, women are still not fully integrated into the inner circle,” write Tuugi Chuluun and Kevin Young for our 19A Brookings Gender Equality series.