Hi John,
In 2019, I decided to leave the technology company I founded to run for Congress because I saw how our economy was changing and how communities like ours were being ill-served by the status quo in Washington.
The COVID-19 pandemic has only accelerated this transformation. Yet by exposing the stark divisions and inequities that have been plaguing our nation for decades, I believe it has also provided us with a roadmap for recovery.
That’s why I hope you will read and share my new column on how we can recover from COVID-19 and extend more economic opportunity to more Americans.
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Thanks for reading and sharing, John!
-- Brynne Kennedy
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MEDIUM: A Pandemic Roadmap to Extend Economic Opportunity to Everyone
Before COVID-19, a combination of forces was already changing our economy and upending the status quo. Technology was disrupting jobs and incubating new ones. New business models created job flexibility and eroded job stability, while economic opportunity was increasingly centered in selected cities. These forces — coupled with the additional factors like globalization and climate change — were not kind to rural America. Inequality accelerated and millions of Americans fell out of the modern economy. Anger and division grew — and politicians weaponized these sentiments for personal and partisan gain.
Since 2000, the top one-fifth of zip codes (by economic wealth) have captured more than three-fifths of job growth. In many rural communities, employment and labor force participation hasn’t recovered to levels from before the Great Recession, while urban areas have exceeded pre-recession levels by 9%. Increasing numbers of children from rural areas, graduate from high school and never return, instead bringing their skills to jobs concentrated in urban hubs.
It’s natural to have geographic distinctions across our economy, but the severity and scale of today’s differences makes how to extend economic opportunity to more communities the seminal question of our era. It was this question that led me to run for US Congress in 2020 in California’s rural and suburban 4th Congressional District, after witnessing these trends as CEO of Topia, a technology company that pioneered tools for distributed work.
In the middle of my campaign, the biggest disruption of all came: a once in a century global pandemic. COVID-19 immediately accelerated and deepened the forces that were already transforming our economy. While technology boomed, other industries shut down entirely. Inequality and unemployment skyrocketed — and — so did our divisions.
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