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Cupid Picks Your Pocket: Valentine’s Staples Up More Than 15% This Year

Report finds Trump’s policies have driven up prices for Americans looking to share the love.

February 11, 2026 Groundwork Collaborative
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Revised Data Paints a Grim Picture of 2025 Jobs Market

Today’s delayed report shows the United States added even fewer jobs in 2025 than previously reported.

February 11, 2026 Groundwork Collaborative
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Hidden Fees and Wasted Time: New Report Shows the ‘Annoyance Economy’ Costs Americans $165 Billion a Year

Americans lose over $32 billion annually to spam and robocalls, $90 billion to junk fees, and $41 billion to calls with health insurance companies and waiting for medical services.

February 9, 2026 Groundwork Collaborative
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Consumers Blame Trump as Weak 2026 Economy Takes Shape

Voters are increasingly unhappy with Trump’s handling of the economy.

February 6, 2026 Groundwork Collaborative
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Consumer Sentiment Nears Record Lows as Americans Brace for Higher Prices and a Weakening Economy

Today’s University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment shows consumer perceptions about the economy remain historically low.

February 6, 2026 Groundwork Collaborative
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Not In Their League

As Groundwork Collaborative noted in a paper last March, publicly funded stadiums were supposed to serve a civic purpose, not exist as walled-off playgrounds for the powerful.

February 3, 2026 Groundwork Collaborative
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Red Card

As the World Cup takes up temporary residence in American cities this summer, FIFA has embraced a familiar opportunity: permission to price-gouge. Ticket prices for soccer’s premier tournament have in some cases topped $80,000. FIFA insists its hands are tied, blaming domestic market conditions.

February 3, 2026 The American Prospect
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Algorithmic And Surveillance Pricing Pushes Retail Into Legal Minefield

Research conducted by Consumer Reports, in association with Groundwork Collaborative and More Perfect Union, found that customers could be charged up to 23% more for the same item ordered from the same store at the same time.

February 3, 2026 Forbes
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Behind the Bleachers

Alex Jacquez writes: Yet outside the lines, the business of sports has separated from what we love about the games. As our economy has been defined by soaring inequality, the rising cost of living, the suppression of workers, and the financialization of everything over the last half-century, those same extractive and exploitative practices have crept their way onto the field of play. It wearies fans, stresses family budgets, shortchanges players, and generates a backlash reminiscent of politics rather than athletics. If America bounces back from this dark period of cronyism and oligarchy, it might actually start with our collective rage against the corruption of sports.

February 2, 2026 The American Prospect
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Why Warsh might not give Trump the economy he wants

New Data for Progress polling that Groundwork Collaborative shared with MM found broad support for Trump’s plans to cap credit card rates and bar institutional investors from the single family housing market.

February 2, 2026 Politico
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