New data shows how employment gains made by women last year have been erased by this economic downturn. Now that the pandemic has exposed systemic inequalities in the workplace, it’s time to act.

The Covid-19 healthcare crisis is taking an especially brutal toll on those battling chronic conditions and mental health issues.

What the pandemic has exposed is not only that the systems are broken, but also that we haven’t been studying them and measuring progress adequately. It doesn’t matter if more women get to participate in the economy, if they are still not able to save or otherwise make progress towards greater financial security.

What’s striking about the American experience with Covid-19 is that while half the country is counting days till the miracle vaccine will allow things to go back to normal, the other half of the country has no intention of ever vaccinating themselves or is on the fence about it. And this makes our prospects for going back to normal even murkier and complicated.

In the age of the Covid-19 pandemic, this argument about capitalism and whether you can really be a “socially impactful” investor, is playing out across many industries in real life. Old structures, systems and business models are breaking down. Pick any industry, look at their numbers, and you’ll see exactly how prepared they’ve been for a global catastrophe all along.

The Trump administration’s dangerous centralization of hospital data and leaving the states to figure out testing policies on their own are still leaving many Americans to fend for themselves when it comes to accessing reliable and affordable Covid-19 tests, months into the pandemic.