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What Is This Bipartisan Data Center Bill Really About?

“It doesn’t really have much in the way of teeth,” said David Pomerantz, the executive director of the Energy and Policy Institute. Both Pomerantz and Grayson Flood, a senior fellow at Groundwork Collaborative, said that the bill’s toothlessness doesn’t mean it’s bad—just that it doesn’t actively change much. “It should be something that folks support,” Flood said. “Where I would push back is if it starts to be framed as: Well, we’ve done the thing and now we don’t need to do any more.”

September 15, 2026 The New Republic
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Digital shelf labels are supposed to save shoppers money. A new NJ law says they could do the opposite—and put a one-year freeze on them.

A recent report from the Groundwork Collaborative, Consumer Reports, and More Perfect Union also claimed that Instacart’s AI pricing tool offers individualized prices on the same items.

September 15, 2026 Fortune
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Trump Officials Are Selling an Economy Americans Aren’t Buying. Sound Familiar?

“That’s the argument you make when you’ve run out of economic arguments,” said Lindsay Owens, the president and CEO of the left-leaning Groundwork Collaborative. “You saber-rattle about foreign adversaries, and you wax poetic about a bygone period of American manufacturing.”

September 14, 2026 Washington Sun
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August CPI Report Shows Price Hikes Accelerating as Trump Brushes Off Working Families’ Affordability Worries

Paychecks no longer cover the basics as Trump drives up prices on gas, groceries.

September 11, 2026 Groundwork Collaborative
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The Post-Trump Republican to Watch (and Watch Out For).

The lead witness was Lindsay Owens, who heads Groundwork Collaborative, a leading think tank critical of corporate abuses (she also serves on the Prospect board).

September 10, 2026 The American Prospect
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Millionaires Love NY: New IRS Data Shows New York’s Millionaire Population Grew Years After the State Raised Taxes on the Rich

Most recent data shows state’s millionaire population grew even after state raised top marginal tax rate, once again debunking the tax flight myth.

September 10, 2026 Groundwork Collaborative
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Trouble in US bond market could mean higher prices are here to stay.

Jacquez, senior vice-president of policy, advocacy and research at the progressive thinktank Groundwork Collaborative and a former economic adviser to the Biden administration, said that higher borrowing costs will be especially painful for Americans whose savings have been depleted after years of high inflation.

September 10, 2026 The Guardian
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Key Republicans Were Blindsided by Trump’s Call for $5,000 Checks.

Trump has promised Americans a dividend, rebate, or check 15 times since returning to office, and none of those have materialized, according to a tally by Groundwork Collaborative, a left-leaning organization.

September 10, 2026 Washington Sun
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Benched: The Rising Cost of Following Sports in America

Ahead of NFL kickoff, new research finds watching on streaming will run fans close to $3,000 in subscriptions and tailgating staples are up over 10% from last year.

September 9, 2026 Groundwork Collaborative
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Electronic shelf labels likely to cost jobs and drive up grocery prices, US report warns.

In December, Instacart ended a pilot program practice that allowed retailers to charge online shoppers different prices for the same products after an investigation by Consumer Reports and Groundwork Collaborative found grocery prices could differ by as much as 23% between customers.

September 9, 2026 The Guardian
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