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Majorities believe AI implementation will make work worse, direct benefits only to the top.
Alex Jacquez, senior vice president of policy at the liberal group Groundwork Collaborative and a former Biden aide, said that the tariffs aren’t necessarily legal but that Supreme Court would likely uphold them[.]
Consumers paid Trump’s tariff costs, but the $166 billion in court-ordered refunds is padding corporate profits as the Iran war drives up the cost of everyday essentials.
GDP misses expectations and the savings rate fell to a four-year low.
Trump’s economy hammers working families with rising inflation and high prices.
The cost of a typical basket of school items, including notebooks, lunch boxes and index cards, is up nearly 8% this year compared to 2025, according to research from The Century Foundation, a progressive think tank, and Groundwork Collaborative, a progressive advocacy group. Americans will also pay 11% more for a typical school lunch, the groups found.
“One of the things that you can do with AI is surveillance pricing and algorithmic wage discrimination…your rabbi on this is a woman called Lindsay Owens has got a book coming out, Gouged.”
By the numbers: Parents will spend an average of $173.45 on the 21 most common supply items, up 7.7% in a year, according to Groundwork Collaborative and the Century Foundation, which analyzed transaction data from about 50,000 retailers.
“My friends who aren’t politically engaged — I say, ‘Trump has made $4 billion since he’s been president, he’s getting a jet from Qatar,’” former Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden adviser Alex Jacquez told me at a progressive conference recently. “And they say, ‘Nancy Pelosi is long on Nvidia.’”
This year’s school supplies are estimated to cost an average of $175 more per child compared to last year, according to a July 27 report by progressive think tanks The Century Foundation and Groundwork Collaborative.