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Flights, fertilizer, mortgage rates: how the Iran war is raising more than just US gas prices.

Alex Jacquez, chief of policy and advocacy at the Groundwork Collaborative, a progressive policy group, said that the impact of oil and gas shortages on the supply chain can be categorized as first-order effects or second-order effects.

March 26, 2026 The Guardian

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Higher gas prices from Iran war could offset bigger tax refunds from Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’.

The energy shock is going to hit those who have the least cushion ... and it doesn’t look like those tax refunds are going to be here to save them,” Alex Jacquez, chief of policy and advocacy at Groundwork Collaborative, a left-leaning economic policy think tank, said during a press call Friday.

March 26, 2026 CNBC

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Californians want to tax billionaires. They’re threatening to leave.

“My favorite solution would be, let’s have some federal investment into healthcare that would make it more affordable,” said Janelle Jones, senior fellow at the progressive Groundwork Collaborative. “But I don’t think that’s going to happen.”

March 25, 2026 USA Today

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America’s booming annoyance economy.

In fact, a new report from the Groundwork Collaborative, a left-leaning think tank, finds the "annoyance economy" costs American families around $165 billion in lost time annually.

March 25, 2026 Business Insider

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Trump’s Broken Promises: Energy and Utility Bills Surge as Families Struggle to Keep Up

President Trump promised to cut energy prices in half within his first year in office. He has done the exact opposite.

March 25, 2026 Groundwork Collaborative

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We Can’t Deregulate our Way to Housing Affordability: New Report Reveals Rents Won’t Decrease Until We Fix Housing Finance

Today, Groundwork Collaborative released a new report that challenges the assertion that regulation is the primary barrier to housing affordability.

March 25, 2026 Groundwork Collaborative

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Why zoning isn’t the biggest obstacle to building more apartments.

Federal and local governments already support private development through a range of public finance channels, including Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, municipal bonds and tax-increment financing. But Groundwork Collaborative, a Washington, D.C.-based progressive economic policy and advocacy organization that focuses on issues such as housing, inflation and the labor market, asserts that those programs largely bypass the riskiest and most expensive part of building housing.

March 24, 2026 Homes.com

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Groundwork Collaborative Releases New Analysis on Fiscal Case for NYC Millionaires Tax

With Albany’s April 1 budget deadline approaching, Groundwork Collaborative today released “Closing the Gap: Why New York City Needs a Millionaires Tax.”

March 24, 2026 Groundwork Collaborative

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The secret retail strategy behind higher grocery prices.

Lindsay Owens writes: As more and more commerce moves online, the idea that tech companies should be able to gouge us in the name of convenience is a frightening proposition. For more than a century, the price tag set the rules of the marketplace: The same product should have the same posted price for everyone. That transparency allows families to budget and comparison shop, and it ensures that businesses have to compete on price and quality. It also keeps markets fair and honest.

March 23, 2026 Tennessean

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The Truth About Walmart’s Surveillance Pricing 😳

Lindsay Owens: “Yeah, this was a pretty rough couple of weeks for Walmart shoppers. The first thing we learned is Walmart, in their brick-and-mortar stores, is going with electronic shelf labels. Now, they have sworn up and down that they are not going to use these electronic shelf labels for dynamic pricing to change the price of ice cream on a hot summer day, but look, they partnered with a French company who builds electronic shelf labels for the sole purpose of doing data driven dynamic pricing in grocery stores. So I think we all know where this is likely headed.”

March 23, 2026 Rossen Reports