How to recover from a pandemic

February 5, 2021 (pre-recorded on 2/1): Many people hardest hit by the pandemic were still recovering economically from the 2008 Great Recession.

So, what does Vermont need to do to address long-term inequities? How can the state ensure communities recover stronger, and not just return to "business as usual?"

Stephanie Yu, deputy director of the Public Assets Institute, returns to the show to update listeners on the health of the Vermont economy.

Read the 2020 Working Vermont Report

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Olga Peters

Producer and host Olga is a journalist by day and a screenwriter by night. On the Montpelier Happy Hour she combines a newshound's doggedness with a fiction writer's sense of "what if...".

Emilie Kornheiser

Regular contributor Emilie Kornheiser represents Windham District 2-1 in the Vermont House of Representatives (that’s Brattleboro.) She always appreciates an opportunity to unpack the stories that drive us and hopes her gravestone will read “she asked good questions.” You can find more about her and her work in the legislature at emiliekornheiser.org.