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The data remains clear: inflation is not easing. Price pressures persist where it matters most in goods and services households can’t go without.
Groundwork Collaborative and Protect Borrowers published a new poll finding that Americans—across party lines and by a more than 4-to-1 margin—support government action on a range of populist economic policies to bring down the cost of families’ mounting debts.
The first jobs report after President Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner for “rigging data” showed that regardless of who’s in charge of BLS, the U.S. job market is plummeting under President Donald Trump’s leadership.
Lindsay Owens, executive director of progressive economic think tank Groundwork Collaborative, said that enacting A4A's requests would allow airlines to take advantage of consumers, and be a sign that other industries could do the same. "The airline industry has long been a pioneer in ruthless and deceptive pricing," Owens said. "Now they're seeking to self-enforce the consumer protections they have a long track record of violating... If key passenger protections are further rolled back, the signal gets even clearer: in the Trump Administration, polices that put corporate profits over consumer wallets are allowed to soar freely," Owens added.
Today, the Senate Banking Committee is holding a confirmation hearing for Dr. Stephen Miran.
Groundwork Collaborative Executive Director Lindsay Owens was featured on CBS Evening News in a segment on how rental car company Hertz is using AI to squeeze consumers.
For over 130 years, Labor Day has been recognized as a federal holiday in honor of America’s workforce, but this year, American working families will not get a break thanks to the disastrous economic policies the Trump administration has enacted.
“I think this is a real boiling-the-frog moment,” Alex Jacquez, chief of policy and advocacy at Groundwork Collaborative, told me.“It’s hard to tell what would be the tipping point here … as long as the line is going up, everybody seems to be giving him a pass.”
Trump’s illegal attempt to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook is nothing more than politically motivated lawfare to cover up his own economic mismanagement.
Alex Jacquez, Chief of Policy and Advocacy at Groundwork Collaborative, told Newsweek: "Consumer confidence is still well below the number that generally indicates an upcoming recession. Consumers expect prices to go up again after several months of easing, labor market expectations are souring, and recession fears are on the rise. No matter how many economic experts President Trump fires, he can't hide the bad economic news from consumers."