Claudia Sahm offers her views on the current recession as well as options for a few paths forward. Sahm also lays out the timeline of congressional legislation and federal actions thus far in response to COVID-19, and she discusses how sees those actions in comparison to the Great Recession of 2008.

Presented by the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy and the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate as part of the "Price Talks: Policy in a Pandemic" series and the "Lusk Perspectives" series. These virtual talks examine policy challenges around the COVID-19 pandemic.