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Labor market shows signs of lag while hiring is concentrated in limited sectors insulated from economic reality.
As major retailers and tech giants like Walmart and Google roll out AI assistants that help consumers shop, purchase, and invest, questions remain as to whether these tools truly aim to help shoppers or are built to pad corporate profits.
New paper from Groundwork Collaborative outlines solutions to immediately lower electricity bills, save households over $250 billion over ten years, and ensure utility customers aren't left paying for Big Tech's AI data center boom.
Groundwork analysis and new polling finds millions of working Americans with limited access to health care, food assistance while billionaires cash in thanks to Trump’s signature package
As America celebrates its 250th birthday, new analysis from Groundwork Collaborative and The Century Foundation finds families paying more for cookout and party supplies, cities cancel firework displays due to Trump’s tariffs.
Lindsay Owens and Nia Law write: “Last month, Google unveiled its new Universal Cart, a centralized agentic shopping hub and touted updates to a protocol that unleashes AI agents to complete purchases autonomously. The roll-out marked Silicon Valley’s latest attempt to sell a frictionless existence stewarded by an endless army of assistants who can do everything from book your flights and place your grocery order to help you manage or invest your money.”
Alex Jacquez, the chief of policy and advocacy at the left-leaning Groundwork Collaborative and a former Sanders aide, helped craft a $15 minimum wage proposal that Democrats attempted to include in their climate and economic policy bill in 2021.
Data shows soaring prices coupled with limited growth spoil summer fun for working families.
Consumers’ rising outrage is part of a growing awareness that many of these business practices are a destructive force on the economy, said Lindsay Owens, the executive director of the Groundwork Collaborative, a Washington thinktank aimed at increasing public power.
Alex Jacquez, a progressive strategist who was a senior adviser to Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign, said in an interview that focus groups and opinion polls deliver the message that Democratic voters’ level of dissatisfaction with their leaders runs deep.