Thinking about the debate over whether the relief package is making "investments" or just pouring money into the economy. This from the vantage as former US Amb to @OECD

The US is off the charts among OECD countries in our social jnsuance, labor and family support funding. Other countries' education systems counter socioeconomic differences them - ours exacerbate them...

We are the only country without paid family leave. Without child care. We have the lowest progressive supports for families the weakest labor policies

At this level we are running a debt in social supports and human capital with long term social and economic implications

These policies because they go to the least powerful tend to rely on annual "discretionary" programs not usually done thru reconciliation. But there is still much the package does to pump money into the families and communities shouldering the burden

The idea that at this point - with women dropping out of the workforce, kids in poverty and out of school, public health under enormous stress - investing in a bridge is obviously a better investment than helping families and communities is, well, narrow