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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.
“I think Trump has been able to cut against his own party here and normalize it as a Republican effort,” said Alex Jacquez, chief of policy and advocacy at Groundwork Collaborative. “And on the left, this has been a not uncommon tool or demand from progressives as a way to capture the upside for government investment.”
New policy blueprints target monopoly power and corporate loopholes that are driving up drug prices across the pharmaceutical supply chain .
Popular grilling and grooming gifts up as much as 30% this year.
Black families already face higher costs and less access as Trump dismantles federal protections meant to level playing field.