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Author: Rakeen Mabud

Rakeen Mabud is the managing director of policy and research and chief economist at the Groundwork Collaborative. Most recently, she was the senior director of research and strategy at TIME’S UP Foundation, where she spearheaded the organization’s signature Time’s Up, Measure Up initiative. She also served in the Obama administration in the Office of Economic Policy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. She is an expert on economic inequality and the 21st century workplace, with a particular focus on how structural factors such as racism and sexism perpetuate inequities. Rakeen holds a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University and received her B.A. in economics and political science from Wellesley College.
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The Nation’s Moment of Truth: The Economic and Moral Case for Investing in Caregivers

Rakeen Mabud and Lenore Palladino
Don’t Call Me Sweetheart: Ageism and Sexism in Health Care

Investing in a robust care infrastructure would not only create new jobs, but would also allow many others to come back, spurring the country’s economic engine.

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The Nation’s Moment of Truth: America’s Legacy of Devaluing Care

Lenore Palladino and Rakeen Mabud
Weekend Reading on Representation: "Make Caregiving a Presidential Priority," Says Melinda Gates

Our current caregiving crisis is the inevitable outcome of an outdated ideology that has resulted in insufficient investments in our care infrastructure and in our people.

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Stimulus Aid Will Sustain 1 Million Child Care Jobs. Biden’s Jobs Plan Must Do More.

Julie Kashen, Lenore Palladino and Rakeen Mabud
Stimulus Aid Will Sustain 1 Million Child Care Jobs. Biden’s Jobs Plan Must Do More.

As President Biden prepares to introduce a new plan aimed at jumpstarting economic rebirth, he must build on a key lesson from the past year: There is no equitable jobs plan that does not include child care.

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We Need a Clean Slate for Worker Justice

Rebecca Dixon and Rakeen Mabud

We must boldly embark upon ending centuries of exploitative practices, policy choices and interconnected norms and expectations that are so deeply calcified they sometimes feel impossible to change.

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Sexual Harassment isn’t a “Women’s Issue”—It’s an Economic Epidemic

Rakeen Mabud and Jhumpa Bhattacharya

As we reflect upon the two year anniversary of the #MeToo movement and the one year anniversary of the Kavanagh hearings, it is time for us to deepen our collective understanding of the wide-ranging economic and emotional consequences of sexual harassment—and recognize that when women are held back, we all suffer the consequences.

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