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A variety of criteria should be used when evaluating proposals to stimulate the economy: 

Relief packages for people facing hardships due to economic downturns should be temporary and well-targeted. Preference should be given to measures that also would stimulate economic activity. 

The debate over immigration to the U.S.

Passing responsibilities down to lower levels of government should be undertaken primarily to place services closer to the people being served and to maximize administrative

Policymakers should require employers to provide employees with predictable schedules.

All workers should have access to both employment protections and some benefits such as health and retirement.

Federal, state, and local policymakers should ensure the proper classification of workers. Those who should have access to employee protections and benefits should receive them. 

Bans, including temporary ones, on the regulation of companies in the online gig economy (such as Uber) or the application of existing employment laws to their practices are not warranted. 

Congress should provide funding for the Bureau of Labor Statistics to collect sufficient data about contingent work and alternative work arrangements.

Congress and state legislatures should require employers that provide benefits to regular, full-time employees to extend them to part-time employees on a prorated basis.