‘Care Is Baked Into a Healthy, Functioning Economy’: Economists Lenore Palladino and Rakeen Mabud on How to Advance Economic Justice

Palladino and Mabud are joined in this episode by labor icon Dolores Huerta, Springboard to Opportunities founding CEO Aisha Nyandoro, National Women’s Law Center vice president for education and workplace justice Gaylynn Burroughs, and labor and women’s rights historian Premilla Nadasen. Together, we traced 50-plus years of feminist resistance to workplace discrimination, women’s disproportionate unpaid domestic and care burdens, and the sociopolitical factors that push women, in larger numbers, into poverty—revealing both how the system seeks to devalue all of “women’s work,” and what we can do about it.