Matters of Policy & Politics

Area 45: Lee Ohanian: California’s COVID Economy

How best to bring California’s economy back to life?

Matters of Policy & PoliticsApril 17, 2020
Area 45: Lee Ohanian: California’s COVID Economy

A global pandemic brings the world’s fifth-largest economy – which is California – to a crawl. But will it derail the Golden State’s progressive agenda? Lee Ohanian, a Hoover Institution senior fellow and contributor to Hoover’s “California On Your Mind” web channel, discusses how best to bring California’s economy back to life – and the opportunities (helping the gig economy) that Gov. Gavin Newsom may be ignoring.

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