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New analysis from Groundwork Collaborative and American Economic Liberties Project outlines how Trump and his cronies have used the White House to make a buck, driving up costs for consumers.
According to economic sociologist Lindsay Owens, the practice is rampant. She says companies have been investing for years in sophisticated tools meant to squeeze every last dollar out of consumers — and for the most part, it’s legal. Lindsay joins Morgan to talk about how we got here, the U.S. laws designed to fight back against surveillance pricing and what you can personally do to sidestep the practice.
“Americans are riproaring mad about data centers because of what they are doing to their communities, families and utility bills,” said Lindsay Owens, executive director of the Groundwork Collaborative, a left-leaning think tank. “Attributing what is quickly becoming a mass movement to nonprofits is a conspiracy theory and nothing else.”
“Price stability is important for consumers,” said Groundwork Collaborative executive director Lindsay Owens. “It’s impossible to comparison shop if prices are shifting.”
Alex Jacquez, chief of policy and advocacy at the nonprofit Groundwork Collaborative, told Business Insider that Mamdani's plan "centers around one goal: growth," and the success of these housing projects depends on buy-in from the public and private sectors. Cutting outdated regulations is a good start, he said.
“We know that people who start their careers during these sort of economic downturn periods, or difficult economic periods, in some cases never catch up to their peers who graduated a few years earlier, before things went bad, or a few years later, when things start to turn around,” said Lindsay Owens, executive director of the non-profit Groundwork Collaborative.
Alex Jacquez, chief of policy and advocacy at Groundwork Collaborative, a left-leaning economic policy group, says it’s essential that progressives and liberals accept that AI will be a huge force in the world and design strategies for how to deal with it.
The share of unemployed workers who are new to the workforce recently hit a 37-year high, according to a report by the Groundwork Collaborative and Fortune magazine.
Trump’s war in Iran stifles growth across the economy while household budgets struggle to keep up with high prices.
Corporate greed and Trump’s war in Iran are robbing working families of their summer breaks, report finds.