Experience
- Michigan and Illinois state government
- City of Dearborn, MI
- Clinton Foundation
Expertise
- Poverty, income and wealth inequality
- Economic security and affordability
- Corporate power
- Michigan and Midwest political and economic climate
Education
- University of Michigan, M.P.P., B.A.
Recent Coverage
SEP 3, 2023
Michigan Advance: Job growth exceeds economists’ expectations as unemployment inches up
Bilal Baydoun, director of policy and research at Groundwork Collaborative, said the strong labor market has provided more opportunities for labor organizing this year. “This is a historic opening for workers not just to make progress against the pandemic economy and the pandemic recovery, but also against the pre-pandemic economy. The rise in labor activity spurred by a tight labor market is very promising,” he said. “And the Fed is threatening to stifle a lot of that progress, which is curious because merely years ago, the very workers that we almost exclusively refer to as essential are proving to be ever expendable in Fed policymaking.”
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About Bilal
Bilal Baydoun is the Director of Policy and Research at Groundwork Collaborative. Bilal is a policy and communications strategist committed to advancing economic justice in the policy arena and the public square. He served as a senior advisor in several government organizations, including the City of Dearborn, the Michigan Attorney General’s Office, and the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice under a Harvard Government Innovation fellowship. As a journalist at The Appeal, Bilal edited long-form analyses by leading scholars that clarified the stakes around inequality and authored policy polling memos. Bilal also served on former President Clinton’s policy briefing team at the Clinton Foundation, where he led an executive briefing protocol on a wide range of international policy issues.
A lifelong Michigander, Bilal holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Michigan, where he served as the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Fellow, and a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Michigan.
