ABSTRACT
The American Dream in the 21st century depends upon the ability of Americans to make inclusive prosperity a political and policy priority. In addition to great loss of life, Covid-19 exacerbates the negative moral externalities of our winner-take-all economy: dying communities, exploding debt, ethnic and nationalist backlash, widespread hopelessness, and the rapid rise in deaths of despair. In this chapter I articulate a number of concrete proposals to create a more just and inclusive post-Covid world: publicly provided childcare and early childhood education, wage subsidies, a jobs guarantee, health care reform, changes to collective bargaining, tax reform, and investment in infrastructure, public health, information technology, and artificial intelligence.
