[1] Mushkin moved from New York to Washington, D.C., in 1937, as the chief of financial studies in the federal government's Social Security Administration.
Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, the Office of Management and Budget, and the international Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
[3] In 1971, she co-authored a notable report estimating that 30–50% of D.C. children living in poverty could be affected by lead poisoning, prompting the search for non-lead-based paints.
[3][4] Another of her notable reports suggested that 20% of national healthcare costs were spent on terminally ill patients.
[4] She was a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the American Public Health Association, and she was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1974.