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Trump wants the public to have a stake in AI. Here’s what that could look like.

Sanders is proposing a 50 percent one-time tax on AI companies’ stock, so taxpayers don’t have to pay to buy the shares. Under that scenario, there’s little risk to the American taxpayer, said Alex Jacquez, chief of policy and advocacy at the Groundwork Collaborative, a left-leaning think tank.

June 12, 2026 Washington Post
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The fight to prevent AI from setting your prices.

“If you get a deeper discount than me, I paid more than you. That’s no different than me getting charged more than you. The outcome is the same. You and I paid different prices for the same item at the same time, and it was based on personal information about us,” Lindsay Owens, the executive director of the progressive economic think tank Groundwork Collaborative, said to DFD.

June 11, 2026 Politico
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New inflation numbers out Thursday show consumer prices are likely to keep rising.

“Whether it's shipping food from a farm to your local grocery store or your summer vacation, all of that is obviously increasing the prices that you pay. It's a direct consequence of the Strait of Hormuz being closed for several months now,” said Elizabeth Pancotti, the Managing Director of Policy and Advocacy at the Groundwork Collaborative.

June 11, 2026 Scripps News
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Fans Criticise FIFA over World Cup ticket prices.

Lindsay Owens: “Pick any day, any seat, any stadium, any location - you will pay more for this World Cup in World Cup history. This is just an incredible eye poppingly expensive World Cup and there’s a really simple reason for it. FIFA changed how they price tickets for the first time and they rolled out what they’re calling a variable pricing model, which is really just a dynamic pricing model.”

June 11, 2026 BBC
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High Prices Making Working Families Sweat This Summer Thanks to Trump’s Tariff Chaos and War in Iran

High temperatures and higher prices rob working families of a restful summer break.

June 10, 2026 Groundwork Collaborative
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World Cup Kicks Off, NBA Finals Ratings Surge, Sorsby Appeal, Sports Ticket Affordability.

Featuring Alex Jacquez.

June 10, 2026 Front Office Sports
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Our infuriating ticket-buying experiment.

Lindsay Owens, the executive director of the Groundwork Collaborative, tells me the widespread acceptance of dynamic pricing lets platforms get away with this.

June 10, 2026 Business Insider
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New Yorkers Join Attorney General James in Celebrating the Passage of the One Fair Price Act.

“Working families in New York and across the country struggle with the cost of living, and they deserve protections against corporations using their data against them to jack up prices,” said Lindsay Owens, Executive Director of Groundwork Collaborative. “New Yorkers aren’t corporate guinea pigs, and Groundwork applauds Attorney General Letitia James, and her fellow New York leaders, for fighting to ensure New Yorkers aren’t shaken down by secret pricing schemes designed to squeeze every last dollar out of them. The One Fair Price Act can’t come soon enough.”

June 10, 2026 Office of the New York State Attorney General
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Your Data Sets Your Price. A Federal Study Showed Exactly How.

A December 2025 investigation put a number on it. Groundwork Collaborative, working with Consumer Reports and More Perfect Union, ran a field test with roughly 400 shoppers buying the same baskets at the same time, and found that nearly 75% of grocery items on Instacart were offered at more than one price.

June 10, 2026 Forbes
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May Beige Book Confirms Working Families are Falling Behind in Trump’s Economy

The K-shaped economy comes into clear view as prices continue to rise, employers and workers lose confidence, and working families struggle to keep up.

June 5, 2026 Groundwork Collaborative
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