I joined @AlexWitt on @MSNOWNews to talk about the impending fertilizer crisis, how Trump is screwing over his most loyal constituency, and why food inflation is set to run hotter for months to come.
Here's the math working families are doing right now:
Average tax refund boost this year: -$350.
Projected extra gas costs through year-end: +$740.
@AlexSJacquez to @CNBC: "The people with the least cushion get hit the hardest."
New @Groundwork report explains NYC's $5.4 billion budget gap, largely a result of the previous admin's deliberate undercounting.
Now we have a choice: a small tax increase on millionaires + billionaires, a property tax hike that hits working class homeowners the hardest, or
Opening Day is here. ⚾
And taking a family of four to a Yankees game will cost you +$350 this season — and that’s before your $15 hot dog.
Meanwhile, taxpayers have spent $33 billion building the stadiums these billionaire owners profit from.
🔗: https://groundworkcollaborative.org/work/street-pricing/
After we published our blockbuster report with @MorePerfectUS & @ConsumerReports, Instacart ended all pricing experimentation.
That’s the power of story-telling.
We're nominated for a @shortyawards — and your vote helps us keep doing this work.
🔗: https://shortyawards.com/18th/same-cart-different-price-instacarts-price-experiments-cost-families-at-checkout
Your packages just got more expensive. USPS to add an 8% fee on all package deliveries as fuel prices surge.
A direct result of Trump’s war in Iran.
Wall Street posted $65B in profits in 2025 — a 40% increase over the year before.
Meanwhile 2.2M New Yorkers live in poverty. Albany can close the budget gap on the backs of working families — or ask 0.7% of their wealthiest residents to pay their fair share.
The choice is that
"Even if the conflict is wound down within weeks, fertiliser disruption alone would cause US food inflation to rise from around 2% to 4% year on year. If fighting drags into the summer, the increase could reach double digits."
Our health care system is in crisis:
Millions of Americans' coverage is threatened.
Rural hospitals are closing by the hundreds.
Physicians are leaving faster than we can replace them.
Our @AlexSJacquez has a bold proposal for a real, integrated public system.
The White House says they've been "all over the fertilizer problem." Meanwhile: gas up 30%, diesel up 50%, & jet fuel doubled.
Our @AlexSJacquez warns that supply chain price shocks are still to come for working families: "Maybe next month's orders. Maybe next week's. But
As if the Great Recession wasn't haunting enough, debt collectors are going after the "zombie" mortgages left over from the era.
My piece for @BorrowerJustice explores the predatory behavior that's threatening families with *decades* of back interest on loans -- or eviction.
‘Zombie mortgages’ are mortgages that homeowners thought were long forgiven after the 2008 housing crisis.
But exploitative lenders are buying them for pennies & forcing families to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars — or risk foreclosure. Our @EmDiVito & @BorrowerJustice on
.@SenWarren first introduced this bill in 2021.
Since then, America’s wealthiest families have only gotten wealthier, while working families struggle to afford the basics.
There are +900 billionaires in the US worth a combined $7.8 trillion. This is simple math & basic
Today, I'm introducing my wealth tax — and more than 50 members of Congress are joining me.
It’s time for the government to start working for American families, not just the ultra-rich.
NEW: Debt collectors are buying up mortgages families thought were forgiven decades ago and then showing up at their door demanding payment or their house.
The CFPB was investigating, but Trump shut it down.
Read @EmDiVito on “zombie mortgages” 🧟
As money gets tighter and costs go up, families are being chased by debt collectors to repay decade-old "zombie mortgages."
@Groundwork's @EmDiVito warns about ~The Walking Debt~ today at IN DEBT, a @BorrowerJustice substack.
https://indebt.substack.com/p/the-walking-debt-families-face-down
