Could fast-tracking the Harriet Tubman $20 bill help our economy? Is there an “underground railroad” to recovery? Some speculate that redesigned currency could be an economic stimulant. A new Face of the Franchise would certainly have people looking, and perhaps spending more.

The US confronts a unique set of healthcare and socioeconomic challenges, including a long overdue racial reckoning. Tangible monetary policy gestures like the Tubman 20 could facilitate this “new reconstruction”. How many faces of non-whites or women appear on commonly carried cash? (Cue crickets.)

Andrew Jackson’s had a great run on the bill we spend most often. Old Hickory’s been on the 20 since 1928! That’s some pretty old hickory for a man who owned slaves.

The Tubman $20 bill has been on hold for several years, and we’re now told it will be several more. Reasons for the delay are vague … dare one say, trumped up, even counterfeit? There’s no better time than now to update the visage on the ubiquitous “yuppie food stamp”. And there’s no better face than Harriet Tubman’s to fill the bill.

Reasons to accelerate instead of delay release of the Harriet Tubman twenty easily outweigh obstacles. What’s your 20?