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Watch VideoIn this brief, we break down how corporate pricing strategies are putting a financial squeeze on American consumers and driving record profits for corporations.
New analysis from Groundwork Collaborative and The Century Foundation shows that candy prices are up roughly 11 percent under Trump—nearly four times overall inflation.
The price of health care in the U.S. is out of control.
Across the country, Americans are already able to see their health insurance rates for next year.
As American workers and families grapple with the effects of a weakening labor market and rising inflation, another price hike is just around the corner, courtesy of President Trump and Republicans in Congress: rising health insurance costs.
Back-to-school essentials are costing families more in Trump’s economy—and Trump’s tariff policies are slated to raise costs even further for school supplies, clothes, school meals, and other basics in the coming months.
We review the failure of President Trump's initial tax cuts to deliver on its grand promises and expose the large corporations Trump plans to reward for fleecing consumers.
Attending a baseball game with your kids or taking a flight to visit family is out of reach for millions of Americans. Between rising ticket prices and exorbitant concession costs, families are gouged left and right by billionaire team owners. Despite receiving billions in public funding, the giant corporations and investors behind stadium and airport concessions wield extraordinary – and growing – power to gouge families and consumers at every turn. Our policy brief proposes "street pricing" policies for publicly funded arenas to put money back into consumers' pockets.
