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Groundwork to Host “Roaring Out of Recession” Virtual Event, Featuring WH CEA Member Heather Boushey

On Monday, Sept. 11 at 1 p.m. ET, Groundwork Collaborative will host a virtual webinar, “Roaring Out of Recession: Lessons on How to Rescue our Economy from Disaster,” to understand why our economy roared back after the COVID recession – in stark contrast to the unequal and slow recovery following the Great Recession.

August 29, 2023

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Groundwork Collaborative Names Bilal Baydoun Director of Policy and Research

Groundwork Collaborative announced today that Bilal Baydoun has been named the organization’s new Director of Policy and Research. Baydoun brings extensive public policy expertise gained as a journalist and while serving in state and local government, including the City of Dearborn and the Michigan Attorney General’s Office.

August 22, 2023

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GOP Presidential Candidates Find A New Target For Their Ire: Fed Chairman Jay Powell

“Chair Powell has already deprioritized and undermined the full employment mandate of the Federal Reserve. Abandoning the full employment mandate would be a colossal mistake: our economy is only as strong as the workers who power it,” Mabud said.

August 22, 2023 Huffpost

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Likely battle to avert a government shutdown in the fall becoming more clear

Kitty Richards, the acting executive director of the progressive economic think tank Groundwork Collaborative and a former U.S. Treasury Department official during the Biden administration, said the president is likely to play a less hands-on role publicly on government funding. “The president has really already played his role and that was during the debt ceiling negotiation. I think that the message that we're seeing from the White House is that there has already been a deal struck and now Congress needs to pass appropriations bills that are consistent with that deal.”

August 22, 2023 Spectrum News

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Vegas voters’ inflation concerns

RAKEEN MABUD: There's a lot more work to do. And it's OK to say that because, unless we acknowledge that people are in pain and they are continuing to struggle, I - you know, I don't think that that message will get heard.

August 16, 2023 NPR

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Larry Summers was Biden’s biggest inflation critic. Was he wrong?

Lindsay Owens, executive director of the left-leaning Groundwork Collaborative, was even more direct: “It’s time for Democrats to turn the page on Summers for good.”

August 15, 2023 Washington Post

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Groundwork Collaborative Celebrates Inflation Reduction Act Ahead of Biden Speech

“After 40 years of failed trickle-down economics, the Inflation Reduction Act is a case study for what is possible when we invest in the workers and families who power our economy."

August 15, 2023

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Did the Inflation Reduction Act actually help lower inflation?

Mabud says the big takeaway is that it’s possible to use a different government-forward approach to inflation management. “It really marks a turning point in the way that people are thinking about inflation,” she says.

August 14, 2023 Fast Company

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Consumers seeing relief in some food prices as inflation continues to slow

“We now have two straight months of low, honestly, quite normal levels of inflation,” Kitty Richards, acting executive director of the progressive think tank Groundwork Collaborative, told States Newsroom. “That’s a huge drop from last summer’s peak. And that is something that we should be celebrating, especially given that it has happened in the context of growing real wages and a job market that is still really delivering for American workers."

August 11, 2023 Michigan Advance

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Is shelter inflation data the most timely measure of housing costs?

Zillow is one place to look for asking rents, said Kitty Richards with the Groundwork Collaborative. “Housing costs inflation has actually been cooling since last summer, and is already down to pre-pandemic levels,” Richards said.

August 10, 2023 Marketplace