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Work-Family Conflicts

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Working Moms' Winter Math Is Getting Tougher
Working mothers remain disproportionately responsible for raising children, and no one can work and take care of sick kids at the same time. In the coming months, the tripledemic of COVID, the flu, and RSV will pull a lot of working mothers out of the office for days at a stretch, compounding the obstacles that women already face.
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Nov 22, 2022
Bloomberg
Kathryn A. Edwards @keds_economist

Veterans Employment

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Supporting America's Veterans: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on helping veterans succeed in civilian jobs, a bakery that doubles as a business school, Black Americans’ military service, and more.
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Nov 11, 2022
Veterans Employment

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Dog Tag Bakery: A Fresh Start for Veterans
A bakery in Washington, D.C., brings together service-disabled post–9/11 veterans, military spouses, and caregivers. For five months, they are immersed in an intensive entrepreneurial-focused business program. It's become a model for helping veterans and others in the military community reestablish their lives.
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Nov 1, 2022
Social Services and Welfare

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The Marriage Plot
For more than a quarter century, the U.S. government has been sending an unmistakable message to poor, single mothers: Get married. If America genuinely wants to address poverty and achieve gender equality, this has to change.
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Apr 4, 2022
Bloomberg
Kathryn A. Edwards @keds_economist
Racial Discrimination

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Historic Lynchings and Voter Registration, China in Space, Firefighters' Mental Health: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on the link between historic lynchings and voter registration, Afghanistan in the era of fentanyl, supporting firefighters’ mental health, and more.
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Jul 30, 2021
Employment and Unemployment

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How the Coronavirus Changed the Childcare Debate
Policymakers have long had evidence that childcare enables mothers to work. What the COVID-19 pandemic taught everyone is how the lack of childcare can be a disastrous constraint.
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Jul 26, 2021
The RAND Blog
Kathryn A. Edwards @keds_economist
Visual Arts

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RAND Art + Data, 'Gray Market Care,' Supply Chains and Cyberattacks: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on RAND's new artist residency program, Art + Data; the prevalence of "gray market care" in the United States; supply chains' cyber problem; and more.
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Jun 25, 2021
Caregivers

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The Informal Carers Who Help People with MS Need Support More Than Ever
The trend within health care services toward remote care and self-management for people with multiple sclerosis has not included adequate support to carers. Greater investment to support the needs of carers could support the informal care they provide, as well as the carer as an individual.
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May 28, 2021
The RAND Blog
Daniela Rodriguez-Rincon, Brandi Leach
Caregivers

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Rescue Plan Help for Family Caregivers Is a First Step
Unpaid caregivers have been a critical part of the functioning U.S. economy, serving as the backbone of the health system, since long before the pandemic started. Adding them to the American Rescue Plan was an important step, but even after the pandemic is over, their financial security will need long-term protection.
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Apr 5, 2021
The RAND Blog
Alexandra Drane, Molly Coye, et al.
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

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COVID-19 Testing in Schools, Family Caregivers, U.S. Entrepreneurship: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on COVID-19 testing in schools, giving a voice to family caregivers, preparing for daylight saving time, and more.
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Mar 12, 2021
Caregivers

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Giving Family Caregivers a Voice
One in every five American adults is caring for a loved one in need. Too often, they have to fight to make their voices heard in a health care system that doesn't always see them as the partners in care they can be. More could be done to integrate them into patients' health care teams.
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Mar 10, 2021
Caregivers

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Family Caregivers Are the Health Care Workers That Vaccination Plans Overlook
About 53 million family members and friends provide care to loved ones in the United States, representing a critical element of the long-term care system. The pandemic has made family caregivers front-line workers. They can't be left out of important discussions around vaccination priorities and how to minimize the virus's risk to those with compromised health.
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Mar 1, 2021
Route Fifty
Esther M. Friedman
Domestic Terrorism

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A Message from Our President, Medical Mistrust, Insulin Prices: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on Wednesday’s siege on the U.S. Capitol, Americans' psychological distress, medical mistrust and COVID-19 vaccines, and more.
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Jan 8, 2021
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

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RAND Commentary Highlights of 2020
The roughly 400 op-eds and blog posts published by RAND researchers during the year reflected an enormous variety of expertise and perspectives, from remote education to election cybersecurity to the economic harms of racial disparities. Here are 10 highlights that landed in high-profile news outlets.
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Dec 18, 2020
Veterans Health Care

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Veterans Day, Psychedelic Drug Policy, Family Caregivers: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on supporting veterans with mental health and substance use disorders, changes to psychedelic drug policy, the vital role of family caregivers, and more.
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Nov 13, 2020
Labor Markets

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Sitting It Out? Or Pushed Out? Women Are Leaving the Labor Force in Record Numbers
Added to long-standing challenges such as securing child care and combating pay disparities, the economic downturn due to the COVID-19 pandemic has hit women workers measurably harder than men. The consequences highlight just how much policy has failed to keep up with women's progress.
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Oct 23, 2020
The RAND Blog
Kathryn A. Edwards @keds_economist

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