#  A New Deal During COVID-19: A Million-Person Health Corps? 

 



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 **June 10, 2020** 

 12:00PM - 01:00PM EDT 

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 The COVID-19 pandemic has destroyed our health and economy. Several leading thinkers have proposed a massive public jobs program, reminiscent of the New Deal Civilian Conservation Corps and Works Progress Administration, that would hire hundreds of thousands who need employment to both fight COVID-19 and enchance health care in the United States.

 Alan Khazei, founder of City Year, Be the Change, and current candidate for Congress, co-authored a proposal for an enormous “[Emergency Service to Nation Jobs](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/30/opinion/just-like-great-depression-we-need-500000-service-year-jobs-now/)” effort that would engage hundreds of thousands of young people in the effort to contain COVID-19. Gregg Gonsalves and Amy Kapczynski of Yale University have proposed an even larger [Community Health Corps](https://bostonreview.net/politics/gregg-gonsalves-amy-kapczynski-new-politics-care) that would “put millions of Americans to work caring for one another,” reduce our record levels of unemployment, and build social solidarity on a foundation of health. Join Alan, Amy, and Gregg for this conversation about why they think we need a million person health corps.

 Participants include:

- Gregg Gonsalves, Yale School of Public Health
- Amy Kapczynski, Yale Law School
- Alan Khazei, Be the Change
- Archon Fung (Moderator), Harvard Kennedy School

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