The US will need a Marshall Plan-style initiative to resuscitate and rebuild our economy and society after we come back from this crisis. It will be a generational endeavor as the scars will run deep. It will be the project of our time.

The government will play an enormous role. The question is how much of the resources will flow from the top-down or the bottom-up. I would prefer a more bottom-up approach as people rebuild their lives and communities.

It’s tough to say but politics is going to be more important than ever in terms of figuring out what the plan looks like and who gets what. We need to stop pretending that helping big institutions helps people.