Joshua Gotbaum

Paycheck Protection Program application and hundred dollar bills.

Don’t fix the paycheck protection program, replace it

Monday, July 20, 2020

Dana Inc. assembly technician Brandon Green wears a face mask as he works to assemble axles for automakers, as the auto industry begins reopening amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at the Dana plant in Toledo, Ohio,U.S., May 18, 2020. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook

To reopen the economy safely, we need both liability protection and hazard pay

Thursday, May 21, 2020

Man working in beef packaging facility

The president can’t force meat factories to open

Joshua Gotbaum and Jeffrey P. Bialos

Monday, May 11, 2020

UNITED STATES - APRIL 17: A woman walks by the closed storefront of Copenhaver stationery store during the coronavirus outbreak on Connecticut Avenue in Dupont Circle on Friday, April 17, 2020. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

How to fix the Paycheck Protection Program: Make sure it actually protects paychecks

Monday, May 4, 2020

FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Capitol during a morning rainstorm on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 25, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner/File Photo

Get COVID aid out now — worry about fraud later

Friday, May 1, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Analiese Zaleski sews hospital masks, as the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, on day one of turning the Detroit Sewn facility into a production facility for hospital masks in Pontiac, Michigan, U.S., March 23, 2020. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook -

Use the Defense Production Act for more than just ventilators

Monday, March 30, 2020

A woman waits behind a sheet of protective plastic at the pharmacist's counter at a CVS Pharmacy in Manhattan during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New York City, New York, U.S., March 27, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Segar

Brookings experts on the $2 trillion coronavirus response package

David Wessel, Jay Shambaugh, Ryan Nunn, Nellie Liang, Joshua Gotbaum, and Louise Sheiner

Saturday, March 28, 2020

A message about protecting yourself from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is seen on an electronic billboard in a nearly empty Times Square in Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S., March 20, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Segar

How to help businesses and their workers survive COVID without bailouts or blank checks

Friday, March 20, 2020

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin testifies before the House Financial Services Committee hearing on "The Annual Testimony of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of the International Financial System" in Washington, U.S., May 22, 2019. REUTERS/Mary F. Calvert - RC128802C110

The federal government gave up on retirement security

Friday, June 7, 2019

woman counting money

The new math of saving for retirement may boil down to this one, absurdly simple rule

Wednesday, June 5, 2019