# Professor Arun Sundararajan explains why the reliance on full-time employers to deliver safety-net benefits for workers had been breaking down long before the current coronavirus crisis, noting the need to refashion the social safety net

1 Faculty News March 25, 2020 ![Marketplace Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/marketplace_logo.jpg?itok=IIav3Udj)>

Excerpt from [Marketplace](https://www.marketplace.org/2020/03/25/laid-off-workers-now-worry-about-health-care-during-health-crisis/) -- Professor [Arun Sundararajan](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan) explains why the reliance on full-time employers to deliver safety-net benefits for workers had been breaking down long before the current coronavirus crisis, noting the need to refashion the social safety net.

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