Elizabeth McIntyre is the Executive Editor of Crain's Cleveland Business. She hosted the Cleveland Press Club event this month featuring Bill Adams, senior vice president and senior economist for The PNC Financial Services Group , and Kay Strong, a professor of Economics at Baldwin Wallace University. We take the most important clips from that press club event and help you navigate the latest news on recent economic data, sectors in Northeast Ohio particularly affected by the pandemic, why Manufacturing and Real Estate industries remained strong, how the $2 trillion infrastructure plan could bring value to Ohio, and the optimism for a strong recovery.

NOTE: This episode was recorded on Wednesday, May 12th. Further information regarding pandemic-related unemployment benefits has come from Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, who declared the state will cut those additional benefits at the end of June, 2021.