We Need to Reopen the Economy: When and How?

A member of the LA Fashion District Clean Team disinfects a side walk in the Fashion District in Downtown Los Angeles, Calif., on April 2, 2020. Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images

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As predicted, social distancing and shelter-in-place mandates as a means to ward off the spread of the CCP virus have sent the economy into a downward spiral. March marked 700,000 job losses and unemployment has jumped to 4.4 percent.